# Chico High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060837000815`
- **School name**: Chico High
- **Location**: Chico, CA 95926
- **Address**: 901 Esplanade
- **District**: Chico Unified (LEAID `0608370`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 39.73560, -121.84490
- **Phone**: (530)891-3026
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5096453 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Senior_High_School
- **Founded**: 1902

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,804
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 80
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 56.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 61.8% proficient — 436 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.2% (cohort of 482)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 367)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 52

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.4% (541 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.0%
- **Black/African American**: 5.0%
- **Asian**: 2.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 56.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 6.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 55.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.6% — 236 students
- **English Learners**: 2.3% — 43 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 91 students
- **Autism**: 48 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 32 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,263
- **Federal share**: $1,101
- **State + local share**: $13,162
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,873
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,062,021
- **Federal share**: 13.3%
- **State share**: 51.0%
- **Local share**: 35.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,441,314

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $38,415
- **Poverty rate**: 41.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.7%
- **Unemployment**: 12.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,366
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 23.6 miles (KOPPERS CO INC OROVILLE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.05 miles (CHICO PARK AVENUE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DEL ORO WATER CO.-PARADISE PINES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.98977 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Inspire School of Arts and Sciences** — 0.2 mi away, 1.4% (this school: 1.66%)
- **Pleasant Valley High** — 2.3 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 1.66%)
- **Durham High** — 6.4 mi away, 1.62% (this school: 1.66%)
- **Ella Barkley High** — 9.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.66%)

### ela proficiency
- **Inspire School of Arts and Sciences** — 0.2 mi away, 75.3% (this school: 70.9%)

### graduation rate
- **Durham High** — 6.4 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 95.2%)
- **Hamilton High** — 9.3 mi away, 97.1% (this school: 95.2%)
- **Paradise Senior High** — 12.4 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 95.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Rosedale Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Neal Dow Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Sierra View Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Marsh (Harry M.) Junior High** — 2.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Durham Intermediate** — 6.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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