# Bakersfield High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954002340`
- **School name**: Bakersfield High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93301
- **Address**: 1241 G St.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.36932, -119.02290
- **Phone**: (661)324-9841
- **Website**: http://bakersfield.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4849300 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield_High_School
- **Founded**: 1893

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,069
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 119
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.9% proficient — 562 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 81.6% (cohort of 837)
- **2021**: 85.0% (cohort of 684)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 20

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.4% (664 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (34 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (27 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 71.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 10.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.1% — 365 students
- **English Learners**: 7.3% — 222 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 184 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 30 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 30 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,416
- **Federal share**: $2,050
- **State + local share**: $15,366
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 3,024
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,038,145
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,976,157

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $17,298
- **Poverty rate**: 45.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.5%
- **Unemployment**: 9.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $798
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 65.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.1 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 37
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.87 miles (ASSISTANCE LEAGUE BUILDING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAKERSFIELD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 13.0743 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **West High** — 2.8 mi away, 0.67% (this school: 1.12%)
- **Kern Workforce 2000 Academy** — 3.0 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 1.12%)
- **South High** — 3.2 mi away, 0.6% (this school: 1.12%)
- **Centennial High** — 4.7 mi away, 0.09% (this school: 1.12%)
- **Highland High** — 5.5 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 1.12%)

### ela proficiency
- **Franklin Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 46.5% (this school: 37.95%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 68.45% (this school: 37.95%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 47.25% (this school: 37.95%)
- **Valley Oaks Charter** — 1.5 mi away, 40.15% (this school: 37.95%)
- **Bessie E. Owens Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 53.25% (this school: 37.95%)

### graduation rate
- **Valley Oaks Charter** — 1.5 mi away, 89.7% (this school: 81.6%)
- **West High** — 2.8 mi away, 83.1% (this school: 81.6%)
- **South High** — 3.2 mi away, 90.3% (this school: 81.6%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 3.3 mi away, 84% (this school: 81.6%)
- **Centennial High** — 4.7 mi away, 91.1% (this school: 81.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Downtown Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Bessie E. Owens Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Evergreen Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)

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