# Mesquite Continuation High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mesquite-continuation-high-ridgecrest/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mesquite-continuation-high-ridgecrest

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063680006237`
- **School name**: Mesquite Continuation High
- **Location**: Ridgecrest, CA 93555
- **Address**: 140 West Drummond
- **District**: Sierra Sands Unified (LEAID `0636800`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.63840, -117.67190
- **Phone**: (760)499-1810
- **Website**: https://mesquite.ssusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 95
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 6
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 0.0% proficient — 40 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 46.0% (cohort of 87)
- **2021**: 37.0% (cohort of 64)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 138.9% (100 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 82.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.8% — 5 students
- **English Learners**: 7.8% — 8 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,746
- **Federal share**: $4,484
- **State + local share**: $16,262
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 103
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,860,588
- **Federal share**: 13.6%
- **State share**: 69.4%
- **Local share**: 17.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,463,725

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $114,397
- **Poverty rate**: 3.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 50.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,676
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 49.1 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 51.08 miles (PPG INDUSTRIES BARTLETT PLANT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: INDIAN WELLS VALLEY W.D.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.16849 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Burroughs High** — 0.7 mi away, 0.26% (this school: 1.94%)
- **Ridgecrest Elem Acad for Language Music and Sci** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.94%)

### ela proficiency
- **Richmond Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 49.55% (this school: 10%)
- **Murray Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 38.75% (this school: 10%)
- **Burroughs High** — 0.7 mi away, 54.3% (this school: 10%)
- **Las Flores Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 44.5% (this school: 10%)
- **Pierce Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 25.5% (this school: 10%)

### graduation rate
- **Burroughs High** — 0.7 mi away, 86.7% (this school: 46%)

### math proficiency
- **Richmond Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Murray Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Pierce Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **James Monroe Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Gateway Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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