# Pershing Continuation High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pershing-continuation-high-fresno

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060797007672`
- **School name**: Pershing Continuation High
- **Location**: Fresno, CA 93706
- **Address**: 855 West Nielsen
- **District**: Central Unified (LEAID `0607970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 36.74279, -119.82145
- **Phone**: (559)268-2272
- **Website**: http://phs.centralunified.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 101
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 6
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 86.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 7.6% proficient — 19 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 81.4% (cohort of 59)
- **2021**: 47.0% (cohort of 71)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 100.0% (86 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.7% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 60.7%
- **Black/African American**: 3.6%
- **Asian**: 16.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.6% — 12 students
- **English Learners**: 10.2% — 9 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 88
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,688,156
- **Federal share**: 12.0%
- **State share**: 65.7%
- **Local share**: 22.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,134,910

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $37,588
- **Poverty rate**: 28.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 1.6%
- **Unemployment**: 18.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,250
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.7 miles (FRESNO MUNICIPAL SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 40
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.04 miles (OLD HIGHWAY 99 CORRIDOR)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF FRESNO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.316 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Columbia Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 29.1% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Big Picture Educational Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 31.2% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Edison-Bethune Charter Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 28.75% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Muir Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 35.65% (this school: 13.8%)
- **Sunset Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 48.9% (this school: 13.8%)

### graduation rate
- **Edison High** — 1.8 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 81.4%)
- **Fresno High** — 1.9 mi away, 85.7% (this school: 81.4%)
- **J. E. Young Academic Center** — 2.0 mi away, 82.5% (this school: 81.4%)
- **Design Science Middle College High** — 2.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 81.4%)
- **Central Online Home** — 2.5 mi away, 86.2% (this school: 81.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Muir Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Kepler Neighborhood** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Fresno High** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Edison Computech** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Heaton Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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