# Columbus (Christopher) High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061146001262`
- **School name**: Columbus (Christopher) High
- **Location**: Downey, CA 90241
- **Address**: 12330 Woodruff Ave.
- **District**: Downey Unified (LEAID `0611460`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 10–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.91960, -118.11600
- **Phone**: (562)904-3552

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 368
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 24.4% proficient — 111 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.0% (cohort of 219)
- **2021**: 84.0% (cohort of 231)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 51.0% (159 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (12 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 89.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 4.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.2% — 94 students
- **English Learners**: 11.6% — 54 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,048
- **Federal share**: $5,991
- **State + local share**: $15,057
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 466
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,219,487
- **Federal share**: 12.4%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 20.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,245,182

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $59,242
- **Poverty rate**: 16.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.2%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,797
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 32.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.9 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 217
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.37 miles (SOUTH GATE FORMER RANCHO MARKET SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DOWNEY - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-02-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Woodruff Academy** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.29%)
- **Downey High** — 1.4 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 1.29%)
- **Warren (Earl) High** — 1.8 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 1.29%)
- **Santa Fe High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 1.29%)
- **Paramount High** — 2.5 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 1.29%)

### ela proficiency
- **Gauldin (A.L.) Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 38.2% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 57.35% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Studebaker Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 45.3% (this school: 22.2%)
- **New River Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 30.9% (this school: 22.2%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 41.8% (this school: 22.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Downey High** — 1.4 mi away, 97.5% (this school: 90%)
- **Norwalk High** — 1.6 mi away, 95.9% (this school: 90%)
- **Bellflower High** — 1.7 mi away, 93.8% (this school: 90%)
- **Warren (Earl) High** — 1.8 mi away, 95.3% (this school: 90%)
- **Santa Fe High** — 2.1 mi away, 96.7% (this school: 90%)

### math proficiency
- **Gauldin (A.L.) Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Studebaker Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Carpenter (C. C.) Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Alameda Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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