# John Muir High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-muir-high-pasadena/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-muir-high-pasadena

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062994004681`
- **School name**: John Muir High
- **Location**: Pasadena, CA 91103
- **Address**: 1905 North Lincoln Ave.
- **District**: Pasadena Unified (LEAID `0629940`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.17830, -118.16020
- **Phone**: (626)396-5600
- **Website**: http://muir.pusd.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6249714 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir_High_School
- **Founded**: 1954

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,206
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 54
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 39.3% proficient — 244 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.5% (cohort of 259)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 188)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.7% (220 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (17 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**: 81.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.2% — 149 students
- **English Learners**: 7.1% — 80 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 77 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,498
- **Federal share**: $4,158
- **State + local share**: $21,340
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,133
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,845,413
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 40.3%
- **Local share**: 45.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,844,313

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $93,083
- **Poverty rate**: 21.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.6%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,182
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.21 miles (INTER MODAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PASADENA WATER AND POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Pasadena High** — 4.0 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 2.03%)
- **San Pascual Elem Sci Tech Engr Arts And Math (STEAM) Magnet** — 4.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.03%)
- **Glendale High** — 4.7 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 2.03%)
- **South Pasadena Senior High** — 4.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.03%)
- **Highland Park Continuation** — 4.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.03%)

### ela proficiency
- **Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 63% (this school: 45.65%)
- **Octavia E. Butler Magnet** — 0.9 mi away, 55.85% (this school: 45.65%)
- **Odyssey Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 73.15% (this school: 45.65%)
- **La Canada High** — 1.5 mi away, 79% (this school: 45.65%)
- **OCS - South** — 1.5 mi away, 61.45% (this school: 45.65%)

### graduation rate
- **La Canada High** — 1.5 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 96.5%)
- **South Pasadena Senior High** — 4.8 mi away, 98.2% (this school: 96.5%)
- **San Marino High** — 5.1 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Crescenta Valley High** — 5.7 mi away, 98% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Renaissance Arts Academy** — 6.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 96.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Octavia E. Butler Magnet** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Odyssey Charter** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **La Canada High** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **OCS - South** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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