# Early College High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/early-college-high-costa-mesa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062724011702`
- **School name**: Early College High
- **Location**: Costa Mesa, CA 92626
- **Address**: 2990 Mesa Verde Dr.
- **District**: Newport-Mesa Unified (LEAID `0627240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.68026, -117.92811
- **Phone**: (714)424-7990
- **Website**: https://www.nmusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 177
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 11
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Blue
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Green
  - college_career: Blue
  - ela: Blue
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 82.6% proficient — 52 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 100.0% (cohort of 53)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 34)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 4

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.7% (8 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 64.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.5% — 3 students
- **English Learners**: 5.5% — 11 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,583
- **Federal share**: $1,360
- **State + local share**: $24,223
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 200
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,018,873
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 17.7%
- **Local share**: 74.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,756,263

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $138,750
- **Poverty rate**: 7.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.3%
- **Unemployment**: 7.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,429
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.1 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 141
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.85 miles (GARDEN GROVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MESA  WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Oxford Academy** — 11.9 mi away, 83.25% (this school: 81.3%)
- **Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science** — 12.3 mi away, 82.45% (this school: 81.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Adams Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Charles W. Tewinkle Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Killybrooke Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Estancia High** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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