# West High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/west-high-torrance/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063942006580`
- **School name**: West High
- **Location**: Torrance, CA 90503
- **Address**: 20401 Victor St.
- **District**: Torrance Unified (LEAID `0639420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.84640, -118.36810
- **Phone**: (310)533-4299
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7985364 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_High_School_(Torrance,_California)
- **Founded**: 1962

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,775
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 71
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 24.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 66.6% proficient — 435 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.5% (cohort of 459)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 503)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 62

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (34 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: 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**: 25.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.9% — 124 students
- **English Learners**: 7.8% — 141 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 34 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,219
- **Federal share**: $523
- **State + local share**: $16,696
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,798
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,192,478
- **Federal share**: 9.8%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,520,994

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $117,019
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 59.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,893
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.0 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 115
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.84 miles (ALBERTSON SHOPPING CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TORRANCE-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Parras (Nick G.) Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 66.6%)
- **Towers Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 73% (this school: 66.6%)
- **Redondo Union High** — 0.9 mi away, 75.8% (this school: 66.6%)
- **Beryl Heights Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 70.55% (this school: 66.6%)
- **Jefferson Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 68.2% (this school: 66.6%)

### graduation rate
- **Mira Costa High** — 2.3 mi away, 99.4% (this school: 98.5%)
- **Torrance High** — 2.9 mi away, 99% (this school: 98.5%)
- **Palos Verdes Peninsula High** — 4.7 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 98.5%)
- **Da Vinci Science** — 5.0 mi away, 99.3% (this school: 98.5%)
- **Palos Verdes High** — 5.4 mi away, 99.5% (this school: 98.5%)

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