# Foothill High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/foothill-high-san-jose/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061182001300`
- **School name**: Foothill High
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95127
- **Address**: 230 Pala Ave.
- **District**: East Side Union High (LEAID `0611820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 11–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.36870, -121.83820
- **Phone**: (408)928-9100
- **Website**: http://foothill.esuhsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 268
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 0.0% proficient — 51 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 54.3% (cohort of 223)
- **2021**: 27.0% (cohort of 161)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 57

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 77.3% (232 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.7% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.1% (21 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 89.7%
- **Black/African American**: 6.7%
- **Asian**: 0.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.2% — 27 students
- **English Learners**: 29.8% — 88 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,860
- **Federal share**: $2,339
- **State + local share**: $20,521
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 295
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,623,283
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 44.9%
- **Local share**: 48.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,944,607

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $124,167
- **Poverty rate**: 8.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,228
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.7 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 113
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.04 miles (1932 SHORTRIDGE AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.386 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **James Lick High** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.71%)
- **Independence High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 2.71%)
- **ACE Charter High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.71%)
- **Pegasus High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.71%)
- **KIPP San Jose Collegiate** — 1.2 mi away, 1.8% (this school: 2.71%)

### ela proficiency
- **Russo/McEntee Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 30.35% (this school: 0%)
- **Escuela Popular Accelerated Family Learning** — 0.4 mi away, 21.9% (this school: 0%)
- **James Lick High** — 0.4 mi away, 28% (this school: 0%)
- **William Sheppard Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 27.9% (this school: 0%)
- **Ben Painter Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 39.6% (this school: 0%)

### graduation rate
- **James Lick High** — 0.4 mi away, 77.3% (this school: 54.3%)
- **Independence High** — 1.1 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 54.3%)
- **ACE Charter High** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 54.3%)
- **Downtown College Prep - Alum Rock** — 1.1 mi away, 85.2% (this school: 54.3%)
- **Pegasus High** — 1.1 mi away, 68.2% (this school: 54.3%)

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