# Decoto School for Independent Study

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062691013202`
- **School name**: Decoto School for Independent Study
- **Location**: Union City, CA 94587
- **Address**: 725 Whipple Rd.
- **District**: New Haven Unified (LEAID `0626910`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.60664, -122.02780
- **Phone**: (510)476-2696
- **Website**: https://sites.google.com/a/nhusd.k12.ca.us/dis

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 233
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 10
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.0% proficient — 104 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 62.2% (cohort of 90)
- **2021**: 44.5% (cohort of 59)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 49.0% (51 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.5% (167 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (3 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**: 68.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.7% — 16 students
- **English Learners**: 18.6% — 52 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,914
- **Federal share**: $2,348
- **State + local share**: $21,566
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 279
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,393,890
- **Federal share**: 8.2%
- **State share**: 48.8%
- **Local share**: 43.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,526,815

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $123,102
- **Poverty rate**: 3.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,176
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.5 miles (SOUTH BAY ASBESTOS AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 12
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.41 miles (NILES SQUARE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.62117 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay** — 0.3 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 49%)
- **Alternative Learning Academy at Conley-Caraballo High** — 0.6 mi away, 25% (this school: 49%)
- **Core Learning Academy at Conley-Caraballo High** — 0.6 mi away, 5.51% (this school: 49%)
- **Hillview Crest Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 28.4% (this school: 49%)
- **Searles Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 27.4% (this school: 49%)

### ela proficiency
- **Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay** — 0.3 mi away, 63.95% (this school: 32.5%)
- **Searles Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 46.1% (this school: 32.5%)
- **Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 39.55% (this school: 32.5%)
- **James Logan High** — 1.1 mi away, 61.1% (this school: 32.5%)
- **Tom Kitayama Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 53.9% (this school: 32.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay** — 0.3 mi away, 93.5% (this school: 62.2%)
- **Core Learning Academy at Conley-Caraballo High** — 0.6 mi away, 78.9% (this school: 62.2%)
- **James Logan High** — 1.1 mi away, 91% (this school: 62.2%)
- **American High** — 3.0 mi away, 96.2% (this school: 62.2%)
- **Tennyson High** — 3.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 62.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay** — 0.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Searles Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **James Logan High** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Tom Kitayama Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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

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