# Poway High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063153004893`
- **School name**: Poway High
- **Location**: Poway, CA 92064
- **Address**: 15500 Espola Rd.
- **District**: Poway Unified (LEAID `0631530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.99900, -117.02550
- **Phone**: (858)748-0245
- **Website**: https://www.powayusd.com/pusdphs
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14683701 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poway_High_School
- **Founded**: 1961

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,101
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 97
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 21.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.9% proficient — 511 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.3% (cohort of 533)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 535)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 154

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.3% (119 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (6 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**: 23.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 305 students
- **English Learners**: 5.8% — 126 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 106 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 81 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 20 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,227
- **Federal share**: $571
- **State + local share**: $14,656
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,161
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,020,175
- **Federal share**: 6.4%
- **State share**: 39.4%
- **Local share**: 54.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,559,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $210,104
- **Poverty rate**: 1.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 28.0 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 22
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.88 miles (323 190 21 22 AND 66)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: POWAY, CITY OF
- **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**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.65%)
- **Del Norte High** — 5.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.65%)
- **Mt. Carmel High** — 6.0 mi away, 0.11% (this school: 0.65%)
- **Westview High** — 7.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.65%)
- **San Pasqual Academy** — 7.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.65%)

### ela proficiency
- **Tierra Bonita Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 64.7% (this school: 53.45%)
- **Painted Rock Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 72% (this school: 53.45%)
- **Chaparral Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 63.2% (this school: 53.45%)
- **Midland Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 58.4% (this school: 53.45%)
- **Bernardo Heights Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 63.3% (this school: 53.45%)

### graduation rate
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 2.4 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 95.3%)
- **Poway to Palomar Middle College High** — 4.1 mi away, 97.6% (this school: 95.3%)
- **Del Norte High** — 5.7 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 95.3%)
- **Mt. Carmel High** — 6.0 mi away, 95.9% (this school: 95.3%)
- **Westview High** — 7.5 mi away, 96.1% (this school: 95.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Painted Rock Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 2.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Highland Ranch Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Valley Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Turtleback Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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