# Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE)

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060330010317`
- **School name**: Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE)
- **Location**: Atascadero, CA 93422
- **Address**: 10801 El Camino Real
- **District**: Atascadero Unified (LEAID `0603300`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.45804, -120.63913
- **Phone**: (805)462-4350
- **Website**: https://www.atasusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 159
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 5
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 31.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Orange
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 38.3% proficient — 51 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.1% (cohort of 53)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 58)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.8% (57 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)
- **White**: 2.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 74.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 31.3% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 1.8% — 3 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,865
- **Federal share**: $368
- **State + local share**: $12,497
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 166
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,613,683
- **Federal share**: 6.3%
- **State share**: 30.2%
- **Local share**: 63.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,754,434

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,008
- **Poverty rate**: 14.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,856
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.6 miles (KLAU BUENA VISTA MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 21.68 miles (PISMO BEACH BELLO ST 1000)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ATASCADERO MUTUAL WATER CO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.89782 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 39.2% (this school: 29.15%)
- **San Gabriel Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 58.45% (this school: 29.15%)
- **Atascadero High** — 2.5 mi away, 50% (this school: 29.15%)
- **Atascadero Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 48% (this school: 29.15%)
- **Fine Arts Academy** — 2.8 mi away, 61.1% (this school: 29.15%)

### math proficiency
- **Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **San Gabriel Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Atascadero High** — 2.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Atascadero Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Fine Arts Academy** — 2.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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