# Santa Cruz County Community

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/santa-cruz-county-community-santa-cruz/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `069103610668`
- **School name**: Santa Cruz County Community
- **Location**: Santa Cruz, CA 95060
- **Address**: 400 Encinal St.
- **District**: Santa Cruz County Office of Education (LEAID `0691036`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 36.98796, -122.03900
- **Phone**: (831)466-5728
- **Website**: https://santacruzcoe.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 730
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 10.2% proficient — 204 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 72.7% (cohort of 428)
- **2021**: 68.0% (cohort of 431)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 45.5% (10 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.7% (113 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (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**: 50.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.1% — 89 students
- **English Learners**: 15.0% — 110 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,571
- **Federal share**: $2,919
- **State + local share**: $28,652
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 733
### 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**: $137,806
- **Poverty rate**: 14.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,323
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.4 miles (WATKINS JOHNSON CO STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.20 miles (POGONIP FARM AND GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA CRUZ WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.20139 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Santa Cruz County Court** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 45.5%)
- **Westlake Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 18.7% (this school: 45.5%)
- **Mission Hill Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 20.4% (this school: 45.5%)
- **Santa Cruz High** — 1.2 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 45.5%)
- **Costanoa Continuation High** — 1.5 mi away, 3.45% (this school: 45.5%)

### ela proficiency
- **Westlake Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 62.1% (this school: 15.1%)
- **Mission Hill Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 57.1% (this school: 15.1%)
- **Santa Cruz High** — 1.2 mi away, 73.05% (this school: 15.1%)
- **Costanoa Continuation High** — 1.5 mi away, 24.25% (this school: 15.1%)
- **Alternative Family Education** — 1.5 mi away, 17.25% (this school: 15.1%)

### graduation rate
- **Santa Cruz High** — 1.2 mi away, 96.8% (this school: 72.7%)
- **Ark Independent Studies** — 1.5 mi away, 93.8% (this school: 72.7%)
- **Pacific Collegiate Charter** — 2.2 mi away, 91% (this school: 72.7%)
- **Harbor High** — 2.5 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 72.7%)
- **California Connections Academy Monterey Bay** — 3.8 mi away, 77% (this school: 72.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Mission Hill Middle** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Santa Cruz High** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Santa Cruz City Elementary Alternative Education-Monarch** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Bay View Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Branciforte Middle** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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