# Black Rock Alternative/Continuation

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062586003890`
- **School name**: Black Rock Alternative/Continuation
- **Location**: Yucca Valley, CA 92284
- **Address**: 59273 Sunnyslope
- **District**: Morongo Unified (LEAID `0625860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.12730, -116.37119
- **Phone**: (760)369-6310

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 122
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Yellow

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 21.2% proficient — 33 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 84.2% (cohort of 95)
- **2021**: 32.0% (cohort of 84)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 60.7% (74 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.7% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.6% (11 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 86.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.9% — 14 students
- **English Learners**: 5.5% — 7 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,097
- **Federal share**: $2,459
- **State + local share**: $21,638
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 128
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,058,839
- **Federal share**: 15.6%
- **State share**: 72.7%
- **Local share**: 11.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,906,464

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,115
- **Poverty rate**: 20.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.3%
- **Unemployment**: 8.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,535
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 49.6 miles (NORTON AIR FORCE BASE LNDFLL 2)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 18.30 miles (TWENTYNINE PALMS RESERVATION SECTION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HI DESERT WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Yucca Valley High** — 3.2 mi away, 2.12% (this school: 11.72%)
- **Desert Hot Springs High** — 14.0 mi away, 4.6% (this school: 11.72%)

### ela proficiency
- **La Contenta Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 37.65% (this school: 20.6%)
- **Onaga Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 37.65% (this school: 20.6%)
- **Friendly Hills Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 59.1% (this school: 20.6%)
- **Yucca Valley High** — 3.2 mi away, 50.75% (this school: 20.6%)
- **Joshua Tree Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 39.45% (this school: 20.6%)

### graduation rate
- **Desert Hot Springs High** — 14.0 mi away, 85.6% (this school: 84.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Onaga Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Friendly Hills Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Joshua Tree Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Yucca Mesa Elementary** — 4.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Yucca Valley Elementary** — 4.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/black-rock-alternative-continuation-yucca-valley/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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