# Santa Monica High

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063570006102`
- **School name**: Santa Monica High
- **Location**: Santa Monica, CA 90405
- **Address**: 601 Pico Blvd.
- **District**: Santa Monica-Malibu Unified (LEAID `0635700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.01196, -118.48558
- **Phone**: (310)395-3204
- **Website**: https://www.smmusd.org/samohi
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7419795 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_High_School
- **Founded**: 1906

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,588
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 130
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 74.2% proficient — 639 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.4% (cohort of 668)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 713)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 252

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.5% (185 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (14 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**: 30.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.1% — 310 students
- **English Learners**: 6.3% — 161 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 119 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 68 students
- **Autism**: 36 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,573
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $33,858,144
- **Federal share**: 5.9%
- **State share**: 8.6%
- **Local share**: 85.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,275,496

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,199
- **Poverty rate**: 23.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 78.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,210
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.5 miles (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY AREA 1)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.63 miles (ADELANTE EASTSIDE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA MONICA-CITY, WATER DIVISION
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.1085 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Olympic High (Continuation)** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)
- **Animo Venice Charter High** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)
- **Venice Senior High** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)
- **James J. McBride Special Education Center** — 3.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)
- **Palisades Charter High** — 3.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)

### ela proficiency
- **Wonderland Avenue Elementary** — 9.3 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 77.1%)
- **Third Street Elementary** — 9.5 mi away, 78.5% (this school: 77.1%)
- **Science Academy STEM Magnet** — 12.8 mi away, 83.05% (this school: 77.1%)

### graduation rate
- **Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies** — 6.9 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 98.4%)
- **El Segundo High** — 7.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.4%)
- **Da Vinci Design** — 8.7 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 98.4%)
- **Da Vinci Science** — 8.7 mi away, 99.3% (this school: 98.4%)
- **Lennox Mathematics Science and Technology Academy** — 9.3 mi away, 99.3% (this school: 98.4%)

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