# Grizzly ChalleNGe Charter

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/grizzly-challenge-charter-san-luis-obispo

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069103211281`
- **School name**: Grizzly ChalleNGe Charter
- **Location**: San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
- **Address**: 721 Mendocino Ave. Camp San Luis Obispo
- **District**: San Luis Obispo County Office of Education (LEAID `0691032`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 10–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 35.32419, -120.72958
- **Phone**: (805)782-6882
- **Website**: https://www.grizzlyyouthacademy.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 241
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 84.6%

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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 79.4% (cohort of 194)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 215)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.5% (59 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.1% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.0% (9 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**: 85.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.2% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 16.4% — 37 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

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

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $65,904
- **Federal share**: $14,945
- **State + local share**: $50,959
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 225
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $293,083,650
- **Federal share**: 15.5%
- **State share**: 35.6%
- **Local share**: 48.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $35,878,327

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $113,201
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 56.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,285
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 22.9 miles (KLAU BUENA VISTA MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.41 miles (PISMO BEACH BELLO ST 1000)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN LUIS OBISPO WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 3.9523 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **San Luis Obispo High** — 5.3 mi away, 1.76% (this school: 3.11%)
- **PEEP - PREPARE** — 5.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.11%)
- **Morro Bay High** — 8.4 mi away, 1.29% (this school: 3.11%)
- **Paloma Creek High** — 10.6 mi away, 2.38% (this school: 3.11%)
- **Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE)** — 10.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.11%)

### graduation rate
- **San Luis Obispo County Community** — 1.2 mi away, 88.2% (this school: 79.4%)
- **San Luis Obispo High** — 5.3 mi away, 97.1% (this school: 79.4%)
- **Pacific Beach High** — 5.4 mi away, 94.7% (this school: 79.4%)
- **Morro Bay High** — 8.4 mi away, 95.7% (this school: 79.4%)
- **Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE)** — 10.6 mi away, 98.1% (this school: 79.4%)

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