# Back Bay High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/back-bay-high-costa-mesa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062724004122`
- **School name**: Back Bay High
- **Location**: Costa Mesa, CA 92627
- **Address**: 390 Monte Vista Ave.
- **District**: Newport-Mesa Unified (LEAID `0627240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.65377, -117.88979
- **Phone**: (949)515-6900
- **Website**: https://www.nmusd.us

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 143
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 0.0% proficient — 37 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 85.4% (cohort of 130)
- **2021**: 57.0% (cohort of 81)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 124.4% (158 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.0% (9 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**: 84.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.7% — 31 students
- **English Learners**: 24.0% — 36 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $44,859
- **Federal share**: $3,050
- **State + local share**: $41,809
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 150
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $25,018,873
- **Federal share**: 7.4%
- **State share**: 17.7%
- **Local share**: 74.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,756,263

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $121,103
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 50.7%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,724
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.0 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 168
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.24 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MESA  WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Heinz Kaiser Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 7.8% (this school: 8.67%)
- **Suncoast Preparatory Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 0.1% (this school: 8.67%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 8.1% (this school: 8.67%)
- **Corona del Mar High** — 1.6 mi away, 8.3% (this school: 8.67%)
- **Mariners Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 7.3% (this school: 8.67%)

### ela proficiency
- **Heinz Kaiser Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 70.7% (this school: 10%)
- **Eastbluff Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 53.45% (this school: 10%)
- **Woodland Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 61.35% (this school: 10%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 10%)
- **College Park Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 52.9% (this school: 10%)

### graduation rate
- **Costa Mesa High** — 1.5 mi away, 93.6% (this school: 85.4%)
- **Corona del Mar High** — 1.6 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 85.4%)
- **Newport Harbor High** — 2.5 mi away, 96.6% (this school: 85.4%)
- **California Pacific Charter - San Diego** — 2.5 mi away, 92.5% (this school: 85.4%)
- **California Pacific Charter- Los Angeles** — 2.5 mi away, 91.2% (this school: 85.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Heinz Kaiser Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Eastbluff Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Woodland Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Maude B. Davis Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **College Park Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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