# Santa Cruz County Career Advancement Charter

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-cruz-county-career-advancement-charter-freedom

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069103614200`
- **School name**: Santa Cruz County Career Advancement Charter
- **Location**: Freedom, CA 95076
- **Address**: 229 Green Valley Rd.
- **District**: Santa Cruz County Office of Education (LEAID `0691036`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 12–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 36.93832, -121.77164
- **Phone**: (831)466-5697
- **Website**: https://www.santacruzcoe.org/student-services/career-advancement-charter

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 207
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 7
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 29.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 12.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - college_career: Red
  - graduation: Red

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 29.2% (cohort of 216)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 30)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.9% (14 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 15.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.2% — 7 students
- **English Learners**: 6.6% — 11 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $24,407
- **Federal share**: $1,409
- **State + local share**: $22,998
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 167
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $71,180,363
- **Federal share**: 10.0%
- **State share**: 52.7%
- **Local share**: 37.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $19,149,413

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,205
- **Poverty rate**: 5.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,523
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.6 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.14 miles (GILROY MONTEREY RD 7301 7363)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ST FRANCIS TRACT WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-08-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.00551 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **Pacific Coast Charter** — 0.2 mi away, 81% (this school: 29.2%)
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 1.0 mi away, 92.9% (this school: 29.2%)
- **New School Community Day** — 1.7 mi away, 74.1% (this school: 29.2%)
- **Pajaro Valley High** — 2.0 mi away, 94.2% (this school: 29.2%)
- **Watsonville High** — 2.0 mi away, 90.3% (this school: 29.2%)

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