# San Marcos High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063488005893`
- **School name**: San Marcos High
- **Location**: San Marcos, CA 92078
- **Address**: 1615 San Marcos Blvd.
- **District**: San Marcos Unified (LEAID `0634880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.13040, -117.20630
- **Phone**: (760)290-2200
- **Website**: https://www.smusd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7414809 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marcos_High_School_(San_Marcos,_California)
- **Founded**: 1961

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,067
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 121
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 32.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 51.1% proficient — 740 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.0% (cohort of 865)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 817)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 83

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.9% (425 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.1% (3 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**: 32.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.0% — 447 students
- **English Learners**: 6.0% — 191 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 215 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 78 students
- **Autism**: 40 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,780
- **Federal share**: $882
- **State + local share**: $13,898
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 3,201
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,635,052
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 52.8%
- **Local share**: 36.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,240,597

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $122,750
- **Poverty rate**: 3.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,555
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.4 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 40
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.48 miles (256 W MISSION ROAD CITY OF SAN MARCOS CA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VALLECITOS WD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-02

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.78877 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **High Tech High North County** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.22%)
- **Sage Creek High** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.22%)
- **Dimensions Collaborative** — 5.5 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 0.22%)
- **North County Trade Tech High** — 6.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.22%)
- **Vista Adult Transition Center** — 6.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.22%)

### ela proficiency
- **High Tech Middle North County** — 0.3 mi away, 68.2% (this school: 51.55%)
- **High Tech High North County** — 0.3 mi away, 74.75% (this school: 51.55%)
- **Discovery Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 65.6% (this school: 51.55%)
- **Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 56.3% (this school: 51.55%)
- **Carrillo Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 62.05% (this school: 51.55%)

### graduation rate
- **High Tech High North County** — 0.3 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 97%)
- **Sage Creek High** — 4.9 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 97%)
- **Dimensions Collaborative** — 5.5 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 97%)
- **Del Lago Academy - Campus of Applied Science** — 6.3 mi away, 97.7% (this school: 97%)
- **Classical Academy High** — 7.3 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 97%)

### math proficiency
- **High Tech Middle North County** — 0.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Carrillo Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **San Marcos Middle** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **San Elijo Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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