# Foothills High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/foothills-high-san-marcos/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/foothills-high-san-marcos

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063488009629`
- **School name**: Foothills High
- **Location**: San Marcos, CA 92069
- **Address**: 158 Cassou Rd.
- **District**: San Marcos Unified (LEAID `0634880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.18010, -117.15880
- **Phone**: (760)290-2544
- **Website**: https://www.smusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 101
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 5
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 57.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 12.3% proficient — 45 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 78.0% (cohort of 41)
- **2021**: 69.5% (cohort of 30)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 81.8% (18 students) [source: ca_dashboard]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.1% — 21 students
- **English Learners**: 9.1% — 10 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,838
- **Federal share**: $793
- **State + local share**: $12,045
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 110
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,635,052
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 52.8%
- **Local share**: 36.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,240,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $157,069
- **Poverty rate**: 7.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 58.2%
- **Unemployment**: 10.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.7 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.54 miles (256 W MISSION ROAD CITY OF SAN MARCOS CA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VALLECITOS WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.00639 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Twin Oaks High** — 0.0 mi away, 6.1% (this school: 81.8%)
- **Twin Oaks Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 17.3% (this school: 81.8%)
- **Richland Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 10% (this school: 81.8%)
- **Paloma Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 11.7% (this school: 81.8%)
- **San Marcos Middle** — 2.5 mi away, 21.1% (this school: 81.8%)

### ela proficiency
- **Twin Oaks High** — 0.0 mi away, 17% (this school: 16.15%)
- **Twin Oaks Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 46.9% (this school: 16.15%)
- **Richland Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 69.15% (this school: 16.15%)
- **Paloma Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 71.6% (this school: 16.15%)
- **San Marcos Middle** — 2.5 mi away, 51.6% (this school: 16.15%)

### graduation rate
- **Twin Oaks High** — 0.0 mi away, 91.4% (this school: 78%)
- **Mission Hills High** — 2.5 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 78%)
- **High Tech High North County** — 4.2 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 78%)
- **San Marcos High** — 4.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 78%)
- **Dimensions Collaborative** — 4.4 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 78%)

### math proficiency
- **Richland Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Paloma Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **San Marcos Middle** — 2.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Mission Hills High** — 2.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Woodland Park Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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

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