# Valley Center High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060006908607`
- **School name**: Valley Center High
- **Location**: Valley Center, CA 92082
- **Address**: 31322 Cole Grade Rd.
- **District**: Valley Center-Pauma Unified (LEAID `0600069`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.27970, -117.02460
- **Phone**: (760)751-5500
- **Website**: http://vchs.vcpusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,075
- **Teachers (FTE)**: N/A
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 49.8% proficient — 247 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 94.5% (cohort of 272)
- **2021**: 95.0% (cohort of 239)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 14

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.6% (277 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (13 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 8.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 58.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 0.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.5% — 181 students
- **English Learners**: 17.4% — 190 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 77 students
- **Autism**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,582
- **Federal share**: $1,632
- **State + local share**: $15,950
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,094
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,211,709
- **Federal share**: 13.7%
- **State share**: 41.7%
- **Local share**: 44.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,854,940

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $115,254
- **Poverty rate**: 9.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.5%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,844
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.4 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.59 miles (SAN PASQUAL ARMSTRONG EGG FARM)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VALLEY CENTER MWD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.00639 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Reidy Creek Elementary** — 8.4 mi away, 59.05% (this school: 50.9%)
- **Norman L. Sullivan Middle** — 8.8 mi away, 56.25% (this school: 50.9%)
- **Quantum Academy** — 9.4 mi away, 57.55% (this school: 50.9%)
- **Conway Elementary** — 9.6 mi away, 52.9% (this school: 50.9%)
- **Escondido High** — 10.0 mi away, 60.7% (this school: 50.9%)

### graduation rate
- **Escondido Charter High** — 10.1 mi away, 97.1% (this school: 94.5%)
- **Classical Academy High** — 11.2 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 94.5%)
- **Dimensions Collaborative** — 11.6 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 94.5%)
- **Mission Hills High** — 11.6 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 94.5%)
- **Great Oak High** — 12.6 mi away, 97.9% (this school: 94.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Lilac** — 3.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Reidy Creek Elementary** — 8.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Norman L. Sullivan Middle** — 8.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Quantum Academy** — 9.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Conway Elementary** — 9.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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