# El Cerrito High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063255005022`
- **School name**: El Cerrito High
- **Location**: El Cerrito, CA 94530
- **Address**: 540 Ashbury Ave.
- **District**: West Contra Costa Unified (LEAID `0632550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.90745, -122.29455
- **Phone**: (510)231-1437
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5350992 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cerrito_High_School
- **Founded**: 1941

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,460
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 60
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.8% proficient — 347 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.0% (cohort of 371)
- **2021**: 90.0% (cohort of 395)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 23

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.3% (403 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (19 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**: 39.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.5% — 140 students
- **English Learners**: 12.1% — 179 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 85 students
- **Autism**: 32 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $5,982
- **Federal share**: $1,545
- **State + local share**: $4,437
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,476
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,299,787
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 46.9%
- **Local share**: 42.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,509,805

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $175,250
- **Poverty rate**: 0.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 76.3%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,705
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.0 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 54
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.47 miles (EL CERRITO PLAZA BART)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.7826 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Albany High** — 0.8 mi away, 0.18% (this school: 0.95%)
- **MacGregor High (Continuation)** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)
- **Berkeley High** — 3.0 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 0.95%)
- **Voices College-Bound Language Acad at W. Contra Costa Co** — 3.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)
- **John Henry High** — 3.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)

### ela proficiency
- **Albany Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 71.75% (this school: 65.4%)
- **Albany High** — 0.8 mi away, 76.85% (this school: 65.4%)
- **Kensington Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 73.1% (this school: 65.4%)
- **Cornell Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 73% (this school: 65.4%)
- **Thousand Oaks Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 68.25% (this school: 65.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Invictus Academy of Richmond** — 0.7 mi away, 93.5% (this school: 93%)
- **Albany High** — 0.8 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 93%)
- **Summit Public School K2** — 1.6 mi away, 93.1% (this school: 93%)
- **Berkeley High** — 3.0 mi away, 95.5% (this school: 93%)
- **Berkeley Technology Academy** — 3.6 mi away, 94.2% (this school: 93%)

### math proficiency
- **Fairmont Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Albany Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Albany High** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Kensington Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Fred T. Korematsu Middle** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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