# Buena Vista High (Continuation)

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063873006510`
- **School name**: Buena Vista High (Continuation)
- **Location**: Taft, CA 93268
- **Address**: 900 North 10th St.
- **District**: Taft Union High (LEAID `0638730`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.14994, -119.46478
- **Phone**: (661)763-2383
- **Website**: https://www.taftunion.org/buenavista

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 85
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 5
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 29.3% proficient — 17 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 78.6% (cohort of 28)
- **2021**: 74.5% (cohort of 36)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 147.9% (105 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.7% (9 students) [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**: 87.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.4% — 5 students
- **English Learners**: 7.5% — 7 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $39,328
- **Federal share**: $263
- **State + local share**: $39,065
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 93
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,003,512
- **Federal share**: 9.6%
- **State share**: 56.4%
- **Local share**: 33.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,894,644

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,906
- **Poverty rate**: 18.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $995
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 36.5 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 28.71 miles (BAKERSFIELD ARC)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Taft Union High** — 0.3 mi away, 1.05% (this school: 9.68%)
- **Jefferson Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 8.1% (this school: 9.68%)
- **Heartland Charter** — 7.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.68%)
- **Blue Ridge Academy** — 7.5 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 9.68%)
- **Maricopa High** — 7.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.68%)

### ela proficiency
- **Taft Union High** — 0.3 mi away, 49.65% (this school: 24.65%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 36.4% (this school: 24.65%)
- **Lincoln Junior High** — 0.5 mi away, 37.05% (this school: 24.65%)
- **Jefferson Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 28.1% (this school: 24.65%)
- **Taft Primary** — 0.8 mi away, 35.5% (this school: 24.65%)

### graduation rate
- **Taft Union High** — 0.3 mi away, 90.2% (this school: 78.6%)
- **Heartland Charter** — 7.5 mi away, 92.8% (this school: 78.6%)
- **Blue Ridge Academy** — 7.5 mi away, 92.3% (this school: 78.6%)
- **Maricopa High** — 7.5 mi away, 84% (this school: 78.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Lincoln Junior High** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Taft Primary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Conley Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Midway Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Heartland Charter** — 7.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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

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