# Burroughs High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063680006232`
- **School name**: Burroughs High
- **Location**: Ridgecrest, CA 93555
- **Address**: 500 East French St.
- **District**: Sierra Sands Unified (LEAID `0636800`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.63560, -117.66060
- **Phone**: (760)499-1800
- **Website**: https://burroughs.ssusd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7495163 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_E._Burroughs_High_School
- **Founded**: 1945

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,536
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 75
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.9%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.3% proficient — 311 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 86.7% (cohort of 338)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 331)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 264

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (53 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (6 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**: 48.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 207 students
- **English Learners**: 3.5% — 53 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 92 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 35 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,876
- **Federal share**: $1,030
- **State + local share**: $14,846
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,518
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,860,588
- **Federal share**: 13.6%
- **State share**: 69.4%
- **Local share**: 17.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,463,725

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $50,714
- **Poverty rate**: 22.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.5%
- **Unemployment**: 14.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,131
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 49.1 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 51.51 miles (PPG INDUSTRIES BARTLETT PLANT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: INDIAN WELLS VALLEY W.D.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.16849 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ridgecrest Elem Acad for Language Music and Sci** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.26%)

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