# Buena High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064098006748`
- **School name**: Buena High
- **Location**: Ventura, CA 93003
- **Address**: 5670 Telegraph Rd.
- **District**: Ventura Unified (LEAID `0640980`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.27716, -119.21642
- **Phone**: (805)289-1826
- **Website**: https://www.venturausd.org/buena.htm
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4985398 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_High_School_(California)
- **Founded**: 1961

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,585
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 71
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.6% proficient — 343 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 89.8% (cohort of 402)
- **2021**: 90.0% (cohort of 426)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 24

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.8% (238 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (22 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**: 58.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 237 students
- **English Learners**: 25.1% — 423 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 105 students
- **Autism**: 49 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,398
- **Federal share**: $1,904
- **State + local share**: $15,494
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,685
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,339,345
- **Federal share**: 10.4%
- **State share**: 48.9%
- **Local share**: 40.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,227,945

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $112,609
- **Poverty rate**: 9.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,317
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.8 miles (HALACO ENGINEERING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.30 miles (WESTPARK SHERIDAN WAY SCHOOL JOINT YOUTH FACILITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.15532 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Foothill Technology High** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.13%)
- **Ventura High** — 2.9 mi away, 0.93% (this school: 1.13%)
- **Providence** — 3.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.13%)
- **Architecture Construction & Engineering Charter High (ACE)** — 9.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.13%)
- **Nordhoff High** — 11.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.13%)

### ela proficiency
- **Balboa Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 56% (this school: 50.3%)
- **Mound Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 62.85% (this school: 50.3%)
- **Foothill Technology High** — 0.6 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 50.3%)
- **El Camino High** — 0.7 mi away, 65.3% (this school: 50.3%)
- **Portola Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 53.1% (this school: 50.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Foothill Technology High** — 0.6 mi away, 99.6% (this school: 89.8%)
- **El Camino High** — 0.7 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 89.8%)
- **Ventura High** — 2.9 mi away, 95.3% (this school: 89.8%)
- **Oxnard High** — 4.2 mi away, 94% (this school: 89.8%)
- **Rio Mesa High** — 4.4 mi away, 92.4% (this school: 89.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Balboa Middle** — 0.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Mound Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Foothill Technology High** — 0.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Juanamaria Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Montalvo Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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

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