# Golden Valley High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/golden-valley-high-bakersfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954011297`
- **School name**: Golden Valley High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93307
- **Address**: 801 Hosking Ave.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.27951, -119.00956
- **Phone**: (661)827-0800
- **Website**: http://goldenvalley.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5579934 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Valley_High_School_(Bakersfield,_California)
- **Founded**: 2003

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,228
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 95
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.0% proficient — 456 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.5% (cohort of 735)
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 592)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 7

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.0% (386 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 86.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.4%
- **Asian**: 4.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 349 students
- **English Learners**: 10.9% — 259 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 162 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 19 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,078
- **Federal share**: $1,708
- **State + local share**: $15,370
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,365
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,038,145
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,976,157

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $103,841
- **Poverty rate**: 7.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.7%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.8 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.04 miles (BAKERSFIELD ARC)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 15.6697 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ridgeview High** — 2.8 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.34%)
- **Independence High** — 5.7 mi away, 0.09% (this school: 0.34%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 5.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.34%)
- **Stockdale High** — 7.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.34%)
- **Liberty High** — 9.0 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.34%)

### ela proficiency
- **Leon H. Ollivier Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 51.1% (this school: 47%)
- **Dolores S. Whitley TK-8** — 1.5 mi away, 49.95% (this school: 47%)
- **Granite Pointe Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 55.55% (this school: 47%)
- **Del Oro High** — 1.9 mi away, 61.85% (this school: 47%)
- **Stonecreek Junior High** — 2.1 mi away, 59% (this school: 47%)

### graduation rate
- **Independence High** — 5.7 mi away, 92.8% (this school: 90.5%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 5.9 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 90.5%)
- **Stockdale High** — 7.3 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 90.5%)
- **Liberty High** — 9.0 mi away, 95.4% (this school: 90.5%)
- **Centennial High** — 9.6 mi away, 91.1% (this school: 90.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Granite Pointe Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Del Oro High** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **W. A. Kendrick Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Panama Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **South High** — 3.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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