# Downey High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061146001264`
- **School name**: Downey High
- **Location**: Downey, CA 90241
- **Address**: 11040 Brookshire Ave.
- **District**: Downey Unified (LEAID `0611460`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.93910, -118.12550
- **Phone**: (562)869-7301
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5303131 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downey_High_School
- **Founded**: 1901

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 4,051
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 169
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.0% proficient — 878 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.5% (cohort of 968)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 912)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 350

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.2% (353 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (26 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 88.4%
- **Black/African American**: 2.8%
- **Asian**: 3.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 564 students
- **English Learners**: 9.4% — 371 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 259 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 56 students
- **Autism**: 45 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 28 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 17 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 8 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 7 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,307
- **Federal share**: $2,603
- **State + local share**: $15,704
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 3,936
### 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**: $88,036
- **Poverty rate**: 17.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.2%
- **Unemployment**: 10.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,859
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 230
- **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** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.43%)
- **Bell Gardens High** — 3.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.43%)
- **International Studies Lrng Center at Legacy High Sch Complex** — 3.1 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 0.43%)
- **Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math at Legacy High Sch Complex** — 3.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.43%)
- **Vista High** — 3.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.43%)

### ela proficiency
- **Warren (Earl) High** — 0.9 mi away, 63.5% (this school: 63%)
- **Gahr (Richard) High** — 4.9 mi away, 73% (this school: 63%)
- **Wittmann (Helen) Elementary** — 5.7 mi away, 76.35% (this school: 63%)
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 5.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 63%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 5.9 mi away, 85.4% (this school: 63%)

### graduation rate
- **Pioneer High** — 3.4 mi away, 98.1% (this school: 97.5%)
- **Gahr (Richard) High** — 4.9 mi away, 97.6% (this school: 97.5%)
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 5.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 97.5%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 5.9 mi away, 99.4% (this school: 97.5%)
- **California High** — 5.9 mi away, 97.7% (this school: 97.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Price (Maude) Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Unsworth (Edith) Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Lewis (Ed C.) Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Santa Fe High** — 2.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Will Rogers Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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