# South High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954002353`
- **School name**: South High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93304
- **Address**: 1101 Planz Rd.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.32371, -119.01455
- **Phone**: (661)831-3680
- **Website**: http://south.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7567456 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_High_School_(Bakersfield,_California)
- **Founded**: 1957

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,107
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 86
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 96.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 52.1% proficient — 396 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.3% (cohort of 578)
- **2021**: 90.0% (cohort of 511)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.1% (396 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (21 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 84.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 9.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 292 students
- **English Learners**: 11.0% — 237 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 144 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,036
- **Federal share**: $2,111
- **State + local share**: $15,925
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,150
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,038,145
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,976,157

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $73,235
- **Poverty rate**: 21.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,258
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.7 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.69 miles (BAKERSFIELD ARC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAKERSFIELD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 15.6697 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Golden Valley High** — 3.1 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 0.6%)
- **Kern Workforce 2000 Academy** — 3.1 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 0.6%)
- **Ridgeview High** — 4.0 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.6%)
- **Mira Monte High** — 4.7 mi away, 0.55% (this school: 0.6%)
- **Independence High** — 6.1 mi away, 0.09% (this school: 0.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **W. A. Kendrick Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 70.1% (this school: 59.05%)
- **Del Oro High** — 2.6 mi away, 61.85% (this school: 59.05%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 68.45% (this school: 59.05%)
- **Stockdale Elementary** — 4.6 mi away, 66.7% (this school: 59.05%)
- **Earl Warren Junior High** — 6.0 mi away, 70.4% (this school: 59.05%)

### graduation rate
- **Golden Valley High** — 3.1 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Independence High** — 6.1 mi away, 92.8% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Stockdale High** — 6.3 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Centennial High** — 7.0 mi away, 91.1% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Liberty High** — 7.1 mi away, 95.4% (this school: 90.3%)

### math proficiency
- **W. A. Kendrick Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Discovery Elementary** — 6.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Highgate Elementary** — 7.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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