# Portola High

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/portola-high-irvine

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `068450013995`
- **School name**: Portola High
- **Location**: Irvine, CA 92618
- **Address**: 1001 Cadence
- **District**: Irvine Unified (LEAID `0684500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.67227, -117.71383
- **Phone**: (949)936-8200
- **Website**: http://portolahigh.iusd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q24693605 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portola_High_School_(Irvine,_California)
- **Founded**: 2016

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,693
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 102
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 17.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 71.4% proficient — 558 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.3% (cohort of 595)
- **2021**: 95.0% (cohort of 326)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 197

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.2% (96 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 18.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 3.2% — 80 students
- **English Learners**: 3.3% — 83 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,438
- **Federal share**: $441
- **State + local share**: $12,997
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,503
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,586,065
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 31.0%
- **Local share**: 62.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,132,805

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $172,344
- **Poverty rate**: 11.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 73.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.4 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 31
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.90 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: IRVINE RANCH WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Beacon Park** — 1.7 mi away, 72.35% (this school: 68.7%)
- **El Toro High** — 2.8 mi away, 70.75% (this school: 68.7%)
- **Stonegate Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 69.25% (this school: 68.7%)
- **Oxford Preparatory Academy - Saddleback Valley** — 3.1 mi away, 75.75% (this school: 68.7%)
- **Oxford Preparatory Academy - Middle** — 3.1 mi away, 73.65% (this school: 68.7%)

### graduation rate
- **Trabuco Hills High** — 3.8 mi away, 96.6% (this school: 96.3%)
- **Northwood High** — 4.8 mi away, 98.3% (this school: 96.3%)
- **SVUSD Virtual Academy (Alternative)** — 4.8 mi away, 96.4% (this school: 96.3%)
- **Laguna Hills High** — 5.5 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 96.3%)
- **University High** — 6.4 mi away, 96.7% (this school: 96.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Solis Park** — 0.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Cadence Park** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Portola Springs Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Beacon Park** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Excel Academy Charter** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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