# IDEA Center

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/idea-center-el-cajon/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/idea-center-el-cajon

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061623013915`
- **School name**: IDEA Center
- **Location**: El Cajon, CA 92020
- **Address**: 1600 North Cuyamaca St.
- **District**: Grossmont Union High (LEAID `0616230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.81747, -116.98074
- **Phone**: (619)956-4332
- **Website**: https://idea.guhsd.net

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 127
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 7.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.0% proficient — 34 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 67.9% (cohort of 53)
- **2021**: 62.0% (cohort of 82)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 9

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 92.4% (182 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.1% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.6% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 36.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 9.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 46.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 72.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.5% — 31 students
- **English Learners**: 8.7% — 12 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $34,714
- **Federal share**: $2,939
- **State + local share**: $31,775
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 138
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,683,832
- **Federal share**: 12.2%
- **State share**: 38.6%
- **Local share**: 49.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,073,708

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $142,697
- **Poverty rate**: 7.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 51.1%
- **Unemployment**: 7.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,063
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 39.7 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 12
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 23
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.54 miles (CHAMPION COLLISION PAINT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: Sycuan
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.25112 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Chaparral High** — 0.0 mi away, 3.95% (this school: 5.07%)
- **Altus Schools East County** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.07%)
- **Grossmont Middle College High** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.07%)
- **El Cajon Valley High** — 2.3 mi away, 3.53% (this school: 5.07%)
- **EJE Elementary Academy Charter** — 2.3 mi away, 3.3% (this school: 5.07%)

### ela proficiency
- **Flying Hills School of Arts** — 0.4 mi away, 38.1% (this school: 37.5%)
- **Altus Schools East County** — 1.3 mi away, 44.15% (this school: 37.5%)
- **PRIDE Academy at Prospect Avenue** — 1.4 mi away, 61.6% (this school: 37.5%)
- **Fletcher Hills Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 60.9% (this school: 37.5%)
- **Grossmont Middle College High** — 1.5 mi away, 79.2% (this school: 37.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Grossmont Middle College High** — 1.5 mi away, 93.1% (this school: 67.9%)
- **El Cajon Valley High** — 2.3 mi away, 72.7% (this school: 67.9%)
- **Grossmont High** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 67.9%)
- **Literacy First Charter** — 2.6 mi away, 95.2% (this school: 67.9%)
- **Santana High** — 2.8 mi away, 88.1% (this school: 67.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Flying Hills School of Arts** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **PRIDE Academy at Prospect Avenue** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Fletcher Hills Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Grossmont Middle College High** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Pepper Drive Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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