# University City High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063432007838`
- **School name**: University City High
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92122
- **Address**: 6949 Genesee Ave.
- **District**: San Diego Unified (LEAID `0634320`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.86068, -117.20543
- **Phone**: (858)605-2800
- **Website**: https://www.universitycityhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7894584 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_City_High_School_(San_Diego)
- **Founded**: 1981

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,465
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 58
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 48.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 67.1% proficient — 370 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.7% (cohort of 389)
- **2021**: 98.0% (cohort of 430)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 149

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.3% (127 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.2% (3 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.9% — 134 students
- **English Learners**: 5.5% — 82 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 68 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,483
- **Federal share**: $2,898
- **State + local share**: $14,585
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,505
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,705,281
- **Federal share**: 14.4%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 60.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,484,916

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $176,680
- **Poverty rate**: 3.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 69.1%
- **Unemployment**: 2.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,242
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 31.8 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 72
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.58 miles (SALLY WONG PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.12701 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Learning Choice Academy** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)
- **High Tech High Mesa** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)
- **La Jolla High** — 4.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)
- **Innovations Academy** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)
- **Kearny School of Biomedical Science and Technology** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)

### ela proficiency
- **Curie Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 75.35% (this school: 73.55%)
- **Torrey Pines Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 77.65% (this school: 73.55%)
- **Mt. Everest Academy** — 3.0 mi away, 77.6% (this school: 73.55%)
- **La Jolla Elementary** — 4.1 mi away, 76.95% (this school: 73.55%)
- **Muirlands Middle** — 4.1 mi away, 73.75% (this school: 73.55%)

### graduation rate
- **Preuss School UCSD** — 1.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 97.7%)
- **Mt. Everest Academy** — 3.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 97.7%)
- **High Tech High Mesa** — 3.4 mi away, 99% (this school: 97.7%)
- **La Jolla High** — 4.3 mi away, 98.1% (this school: 97.7%)
- **Scripps Ranch High** — 6.4 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 97.7%)

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