# Buena Vista High

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/buena-vista-high-lakewood

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062985004647`
- **School name**: Buena Vista High
- **Location**: Lakewood, CA 90712
- **Address**: 3717 Michelson St.
- **District**: Paramount Unified (LEAID `0629850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.85790, -118.14780
- **Phone**: (562)602-8090

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 180
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.6%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 17.3% proficient — 46 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 68.6% (cohort of 153)
- **2021**: 67.0% (cohort of 145)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 104.0% (182 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (10 students) [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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.0% — 34 students
- **English Learners**: 18.8% — 40 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,665
- **Federal share**: $2,365
- **State + local share**: $25,300
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 213
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,464,286
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 67.2%
- **Local share**: 17.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,102,128

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,333
- **Poverty rate**: 5.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,205
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.3 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 133
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.57 miles (55TH WAY LANDFILL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKEWOOD - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.69%)
- **Bellflower Alternative Education Center** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.69%)
- **Somerset High** — 1.8 mi away, 3.54% (this school: 4.69%)
- **Lakewood High** — 2.0 mi away, 2.79% (this school: 4.69%)
- **Jordan High** — 2.3 mi away, 4.53% (this school: 4.69%)

### ela proficiency
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 17.3%)
- **Captain Raymond Collins** — 0.6 mi away, 27.75% (this school: 17.3%)
- **Holmes Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 68.05% (this school: 17.3%)
- **Intensive Learning Center** — 0.6 mi away, 43.65% (this school: 17.3%)
- **Stephen Foster Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 60.25% (this school: 17.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 68.6%)
- **Mayfair High** — 1.9 mi away, 94.8% (this school: 68.6%)
- **Lakewood High** — 2.0 mi away, 91.4% (this school: 68.6%)
- **Las Flores Home Education Independent Study Academy** — 2.1 mi away, 90.9% (this school: 68.6%)
- **Jordan High** — 2.3 mi away, 84.9% (this school: 68.6%)

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