# La Costa Canyon High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/la-costa-canyon-high-encinitas

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063438006516`
- **School name**: La Costa Canyon High
- **Location**: Encinitas, CA 92009
- **Address**: 1 Maverick Way
- **District**: San Dieguito Union High (LEAID `0634380`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.07300, -117.22820
- **Phone**: (760)436-6136
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6461983 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Costa_Canyon_High_School
- **Founded**: 1996

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,774
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 80
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 18.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 61.9% proficient — 342 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.4% (cohort of 463)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 476)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 58

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.1% (241 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (7 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**: 18.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.7% — 259 students
- **English Learners**: 3.7% — 66 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 90 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 66 students
- **Autism**: 36 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 24 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 10 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,596
- **Federal share**: $375
- **State + local share**: $15,221
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,768
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,695,214
- **Federal share**: 5.0%
- **State share**: 19.1%
- **Local share**: 75.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,098,001

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $125,595
- **Poverty rate**: 1.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 56.8%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,250
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.4 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.06 miles (256 W MISSION ROAD CITY OF SAN MARCOS CA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OLIVENHAIN MWD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.78877 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **San Marcos High** — 4.2 mi away, 0.22% (this school: 0.23%)
- **High Tech High North County** — 4.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **Sage Creek High** — 6.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **Del Norte High** — 7.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.23%)
- **Dimensions Collaborative** — 7.8 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 0.23%)

### ela proficiency
- **Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 72.35% (this school: 63.95%)
- **La Costa Heights Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 63.95%)
- **Flora Vista Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 71.7% (this school: 63.95%)
- **El Camino Creek Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 74.35% (this school: 63.95%)
- **Park Dale Lane Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 69.1% (this school: 63.95%)

### graduation rate
- **San Dieguito HS Academy** — 3.6 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 91.4%)
- **San Marcos High** — 4.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 91.4%)
- **High Tech High North County** — 4.4 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 91.4%)
- **Sage Creek High** — 6.8 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 91.4%)
- **Mission Hills High** — 7.0 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 91.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Mission Estancia Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **La Costa Heights Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Diegueno Middle** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Flora Vista Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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