# El Capitan High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062466013098`
- **School name**: El Capitan High
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95348
- **Address**: 100 West Farmland
- **District**: Merced Union High (LEAID `0624660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.36790, -120.46950
- **Phone**: (209)384-5500
- **Website**: http://echs.muhsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,793
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 84
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Green
- **Indicators**:
  - ela: Green
  - chronic_absent: Green

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.6% proficient — 434 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.8% (cohort of 460)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 416)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 42

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 7.6% (50 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 88.9% (1,588 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.4% (62 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (28 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**: 74.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.4% — 153 students
- **English Learners**: 9.1% — 165 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 104 students
- **Autism**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,870
- **Federal share**: $2,058
- **State + local share**: $10,812
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,811
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,884,048
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 19.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,409,233

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $93,264
- **Poverty rate**: 10.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.0%
- **Unemployment**: 13.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $988
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.2 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.48 miles (MERCED CENTER BROWNFIELD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCED
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Merced High** — 3.3 mi away, 6.82% (this school: 7.6%)
- **Yosemite High (Continuation)** — 4.7 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 7.6%)
- **Independence High (Alternative)** — 4.7 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 7.6%)
- **Sequoia High** — 4.8 mi away, 5.66% (this school: 7.6%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 5.6 mi away, 4.71% (this school: 7.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 7.5 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 57.3%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 8.3 mi away, 61.75% (this school: 57.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Buhach Colony High** — 5.9 mi away, 99% (this school: 97.8%)
- **Livingston High** — 13.9 mi away, 99.3% (this school: 97.8%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/el-capitan-high-merced/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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