# High Desert Premier Academy

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/high-desert-premier-academy-apple-valley/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/high-desert-premier-academy-apple-valley

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060001708588`
- **School name**: High Desert Premier Academy
- **Location**: Apple Valley, CA 92308
- **Address**: 21950 Nisqually Rd.
- **District**: Apple Valley Unified (LEAID `0600017`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.48677, -117.18514
- **Phone**: (760)240-4252

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 208
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 22.4% proficient — 60 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 78.8% (cohort of 160)
- **2021**: 57.0% (cohort of 147)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 73.1% (19 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 107.3% (309 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.0% (34 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 12.0% (34 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 55.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 11.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 27.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.4% — 4 students
- **English Learners**: 9.2% — 26 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,702
- **Federal share**: $2,332
- **State + local share**: $18,370
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 284
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,813,543
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 72.2%
- **Local share**: 13.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,211,634

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $47,118
- **Poverty rate**: 30.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,021
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.5 miles (GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.96 miles (FORMER NUWAY DRY CLEANING SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GOLDEN STATE WATER CO - BARSTOW
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.08853 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Apple Valley Virtual Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 48.3% (this school: 73.1%)
- **Yucca Loma Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 39.4% (this school: 73.1%)
- **Vanguard Preparatory** — 1.2 mi away, 16.9% (this school: 73.1%)
- **Apple Valley High** — 1.4 mi away, 1.43% (this school: 73.1%)
- **Sandia Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 3.62% (this school: 73.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Apple Valley Virtual Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 26.7% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Yucca Loma Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 26.7% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Vanguard Preparatory** — 1.2 mi away, 38.5% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Apple Valley High** — 1.4 mi away, 39.65% (this school: 21.2%)
- **Rancho Verde Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 23.8% (this school: 21.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Apple Valley High** — 1.4 mi away, 97.9% (this school: 78.8%)
- **Granite Hills High** — 1.9 mi away, 91% (this school: 78.8%)
- **Excelsior Charter** — 4.7 mi away, 87.3% (this school: 78.8%)
- **Lakeview Leadership Academy** — 5.0 mi away, 96.7% (this school: 78.8%)
- **Academy for Academic Excellence** — 6.2 mi away, 98.3% (this school: 78.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Yucca Loma Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Vanguard Preparatory** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Apple Valley High** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rancho Verde Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Granite Hills High** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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