# Santa Maria High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063567006084`
- **School name**: Santa Maria High
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93454
- **Address**: 901 South Broadway
- **District**: Santa Maria Joint Union High (LEAID `0635670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.94195, -120.43739
- **Phone**: (805)925-2567
- **Website**: http://smhs.smjuhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7419681 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_High_School
- **Founded**: 1909

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,143
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 143
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.0% proficient — 678 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 89.7% (cohort of 774)
- **2021**: 91.0% (cohort of 598)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.7% (361 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.5% (48 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (80 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**: 81.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 402 students
- **English Learners**: 25.3% — 788 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 154 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 48 students
- **Autism**: 30 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 19 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,274
- **Federal share**: $1,811
- **State + local share**: $15,463
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 3,110
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,818,349
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 59.5%
- **Local share**: 32.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,491,507

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,722
- **Poverty rate**: 20.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.6%
- **Unemployment**: 8.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,489
- **Foreign-born residents**: 38.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.1 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.77 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jimenez Roberto and Dr. Francisco Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 1.54%)
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 2.3 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 1.54%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 4.1 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 1.54%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 5.4 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 1.54%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 8.0 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 1.54%)

### ela proficiency
- **Trivium Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 31.5%)
- **Bill Libbon Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 44.05% (this school: 31.5%)
- **Tunnell (Martin Luther) Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 35.65% (this school: 31.5%)
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 2.3 mi away, 43.3% (this school: 31.5%)
- **Taylor (Ida Redmond) Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 35.2% (this school: 31.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 2.3 mi away, 95.5% (this school: 89.7%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 4.1 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 89.7%)
- **Delta High** — 5.3 mi away, 93.6% (this school: 89.7%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 5.4 mi away, 94.6% (this school: 89.7%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 5.5 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 89.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Miller (Isaac) Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Trivium Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Bill Libbon Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Tunnell (Martin Luther) Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 2.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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