# Paramount High *Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/llm* Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount --- ## Core identification - **NCES School ID**: `062985004653` - **School name**: Paramount High - **Location**: Paramount, CA 90723 - **Address**: 14429 South Downey Ave. - **District**: Paramount Unified (LEAID `0629850`) - **Sector**: Public - **School type**: Regular - **School level**: High - **Grade range**: 9–12 - **Coordinates**: 33.90120, -118.15260 - **Phone**: (562)602-6067 - **Wikidata QID**: Q7135329 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_High_School - **Founded**: 1953 ## Enrollment (2024) - **Students**: 3,400 - **Teachers (FTE)**: 176 - **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.3:1 - **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.7% ## State accountability rating - **System**: CA Dashboard - **Year**: 2024 - **Overall rating**: Red - **Indicators**: - elpi: Red - math: Red - college_career: Orange - ela: Red - graduation: Yellow ## Academic performance (state assessments) ### 2024 - **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.0% proficient — 796 tested - **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient - **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient ## Graduation rates - **2024**: 94.0% (cohort of 914) - **2021**: 88.0% (cohort of 996) ## SAT/ACT participation (2020) - **SAT/ACT takers**: 8 ## Attendance - **2020**: chronic absence 15.7% (660 students) [source: crdc_2020] - **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (20 students) [source: crdc] - **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (24 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**: 94.4% ## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020) - **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.7% — 557 students - **English Learners**: 19.8% — 701 students ## Disability category breakdown (CRDC) - **Specific Learning Disability**: 323 students - **Other Health Impairment**: 65 students - **Autism**: 63 students - **Intellectual Disability**: 58 students - **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students - **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students - **Visual Impairment**: 5 students - **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students - **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students - **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students - **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students ## Programs & enrichment - Advanced Placement (AP) ## Finance ### School-level (ESSA 2023-24) - **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,421 - **Federal share**: $2,791 - **State + local share**: $18,630 - **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 3,547 ### District F-33 (2022) - **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,464,286 - **Federal share**: 15.4% - **State share**: 67.2% - **Local share**: 17.4% - **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,102,128 ## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023) - **Median household income**: $76,700 - **Poverty rate**: 5.2% - **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.4% - **Unemployment**: 3.4% - **Median gross rent**: $1,593 - **Foreign-born residents**: 37.1% - **Single-parent households**: 19.3% ## Environmental context - **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.4 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA) - **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8 - **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 172 - **Nearest brownfield**: 1.13 miles (SOUTH GATE FORMER RANCHO MARKET SITE) ### Water safety - **Public water system**: PARAMOUNT - CITY, WATER DEPT. - **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0 - **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0 - **Most recent violation**: 2020-05-01 ### Air quality - **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9) - **Nearest monitor**: 3.0 miles ## Nearby schools performing better ### chronic absence - **Manuel Dominguez High** — 1.8 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 0.56%) - **Cesar Chavez Continuation High** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.56%) - **Thurgood Marshall** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.56%) - **Vista High** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.56%) - **Marco Antonio Firebaugh High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 0.56%) ### ela proficiency - **Paramount Park Middle** — 0.3 mi away, 32.1% (this school: 32%) - **Paramount Virtual Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 61.85% (this school: 32%) - **Jefferson Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 43.3% (this school: 32%) - **Abraham Lincoln** — 0.6 mi away, 32.5% (this school: 32%) - **Alondra Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 41.85% (this school: 32%) ### graduation rate - **Warren (Earl) High** — 2.5 mi away, 95.3% (this school: 94%) - **Downey High** — 3.0 mi away, 97.5% (this school: 94%) - **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 3.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 94%) - **Visual and Performing Arts at Legacy High School Complex** — 3.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 94%) - **Mayfair High** — 3.3 mi away, 94.8% (this school: 94%) ### math proficiency - **Paramount Virtual Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%) - **Abraham Lincoln** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%) - **Alondra Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%) - **Howard Tanner** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%) - **Ward (E. W.) Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%) ## Related data feeds - **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount - **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/performance - **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/finance - **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/demographics - **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/inclusion - **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/context - **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/attendance - **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/discipline - **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/outcomes - **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paramount-high-paramount/workforce --- *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). 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