# Central Union High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/central-union-high-el-centro/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/central-union-high-el-centro

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060801000771`
- **School name**: Central Union High
- **Location**: El Centro, CA 92243
- **Address**: 1001 Brighton Ave.
- **District**: Central Union High (LEAID `0608010`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.78882, -115.56494
- **Phone**: (760)336-4300
- **Website**: https://www.spartansnet.net
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5061940 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Union_High_School_(El_Centro,_California)
- **Founded**: 1908

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,006
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 95
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.2% proficient — 461 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.8% (cohort of 454)
- **2021**: 88.0% (cohort of 491)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 10

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.6% (91 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (17 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 96.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.2% — 219 students
- **English Learners**: 29.5% — 577 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 90 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 38 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $38,626,045
- **Federal share**: $3,837,494
- **State + local share**: $34,788,551
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,955
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,047,862
- **Federal share**: 10.1%
- **State share**: 74.3%
- **Local share**: 15.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,018,222

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $54,593
- **Poverty rate**: 25.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.3%
- **Unemployment**: 8.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,014
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.5 miles (STOKER CHEMICAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.79 miles (EL CENTRO DOGWOOD RD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: EL CENTRO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.17989 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Imperial Valley Home School Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Southwest High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Pinnacle Hall Community Day** — 8.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Sam Webb Continuation** — 10.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Holtville High** — 10.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 0.4 mi away, 43.15% (this school: 38.1%)
- **Harding Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 39.8% (this school: 38.1%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 42.1% (this school: 38.1%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 44.1% (this school: 38.1%)
- **Southwest High** — 1.3 mi away, 66.35% (this school: 38.1%)

### graduation rate
- **Imperial High** — 4.2 mi away, 98.7% (this school: 95.8%)
- **Holtville High** — 10.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 95.8%)
- **Brawley Union High** — 13.5 mi away, 98% (this school: 95.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sunflower Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Southwest High** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Imperial County Special Education** — 2.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **T. L. Waggoner Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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