# Fountain Valley High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061806002228`
- **School name**: Fountain Valley High
- **Location**: Fountain Valley, CA 92708
- **Address**: 17816 Bushard
- **District**: Huntington Beach Union High (LEAID `0618060`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.70510, -117.96140
- **Phone**: (714)962-3301
- **Website**: https://www.fvhs.com
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5474777 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Valley_High_School
- **Founded**: 1966

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,171
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 115
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 72.1% proficient — 755 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.3% (cohort of 759)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 851)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 206

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (12 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.9%
- **Black/African American**: 55.7%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 24.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 4.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 51.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.1% — 222 students
- **English Learners**: 5.6% — 176 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 65 students
- **Autism**: 63 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 47 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 28 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,891
- **Federal share**: $1,109
- **State + local share**: $15,782
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 3,130
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,981,123
- **Federal share**: 9.1%
- **State share**: 35.9%
- **Local share**: 55.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,843,026

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $131,014
- **Poverty rate**: 10.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,484
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.5 miles (ORANGE COUNTY NORTH BASIN)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 95
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.06 miles (GARDEN GROVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF FOUNTAIN VALLEY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Coast High** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)
- **Early College High** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)
- **Jordan Secondary Learning Center** — 4.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)
- **Garden Grove High** — 5.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)
- **Middle College High** — 5.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.19%)

### ela proficiency
- **Tamura (Hisamatsu) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 73.65% (this school: 69.05%)
- **Courreges (Roch) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 72.9% (this school: 69.05%)
- **Masuda (Kazuo) Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 74.3% (this school: 69.05%)
- **Ethan B. Allen Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 78.3% (this school: 69.05%)
- **Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle** — 1.7 mi away, 71.85% (this school: 69.05%)

### graduation rate
- **La Quinta High** — 2.3 mi away, 93.5% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Early College High** — 2.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Huntington Beach High** — 3.1 mi away, 96.8% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Hector G. Godinez** — 3.2 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Segerstrom High** — 3.6 mi away, 98.7% (this school: 93.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Plavan (Urbain H.) Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Fulton (Harry C.) Middle** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Tamura (Hisamatsu) Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Courreges (Roch) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Masuda (Kazuo) Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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