# El Puente

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063398012977`
- **School name**: El Puente
- **Location**: Salinas, CA 93906
- **Address**: 20 Sherwood Pl.
- **District**: Salinas Union High (LEAID `0633980`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 36.68633, -121.64511
- **Phone**: (831)796-7700
- **Website**: https://www.salinasuhsd.org/domain/8

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 326
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.3% proficient — 64 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 30.7% (cohort of 225)
- **2021**: 32.0% (cohort of 175)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 56.7% (17 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 108.0% (257 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.7% (27 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.3% (22 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**: 94.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.6% — 44 students
- **English Learners**: 21.8% — 76 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,378
- **Federal share**: $1,607
- **State + local share**: $18,771
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 349
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,036,490
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 65.8%
- **Local share**: 23.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,583,116

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,295
- **Poverty rate**: 19.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,951
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.2 miles (FORT ORD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.60 miles (PEREZ AUTO REPAIR 15 SHERWOOD SALINAS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ALCO WATER SERVICE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.16393 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Carr Lake Community Day** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 56.7%)
- **Mount Toro High** — 0.1 mi away, 9.68% (this school: 56.7%)
- **El Gabilan Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 20.5% (this school: 56.7%)
- **Laurel Wood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 22% (this school: 56.7%)
- **Sherwood Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 15.5% (this school: 56.7%)

### ela proficiency
- **Laurel Wood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 57.05% (this school: 41.15%)
- **Lincoln Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 50% (this school: 41.15%)
- **Salinas High** — 1.5 mi away, 70% (this school: 41.15%)
- **Washington Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 44.8% (this school: 41.15%)
- **Boronda Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 53% (this school: 41.15%)

### graduation rate
- **Mount Toro High** — 0.1 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 30.7%)
- **Wellington M. Smith Jr.** — 1.2 mi away, 89.5% (this school: 30.7%)
- **North Salinas High** — 1.4 mi away, 91.5% (this school: 30.7%)
- **Salinas High** — 1.5 mi away, 93.4% (this school: 30.7%)
- **Salinas Community** — 1.6 mi away, 56.6% (this school: 30.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Laurel Wood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Salinas City Virtual Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Henry F. Kammann Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Salinas High** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Harden Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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