# High Desert

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/high-desert-acton

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060000109444`
- **School name**: High Desert
- **Location**: Acton, CA 93510
- **Address**: 3620 Antelope Woods Rd.
- **District**: Acton-Agua Dulce Unified (LEAID `0600001`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 34.49095, -118.19513
- **Phone**: (661)269-0310

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 307
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Orange
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Blue
  - math: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.4% proficient — 263 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 30.4% (94 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.0% (22 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 47.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.8%
- **Asian**: 1.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 45.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.9% — 60 students
- **English Learners**: 18.1% — 52 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 287
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,007,455
- **Federal share**: 10.3%
- **State share**: 50.0%
- **Local share**: 39.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,658,147

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $93,767
- **Poverty rate**: 11.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.1%
- **Unemployment**: 2.7%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.1 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 19.30 miles (RILEY SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ILEAD AGUA DULCE CHARTER SCHOOL
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **iLEAD Online** — 0.1 mi away, 3.5% (this school: 30.4%)
- **iLEAD Hybrid** — 0.1 mi away, 4.9% (this school: 30.4%)
- **Vasquez High** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 30.4%)
- **Anaverde Hills** — 5.2 mi away, 22.4% (this school: 30.4%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 6.8 mi away, 21.2% (this school: 30.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **iLEAD Online** — 0.1 mi away, 41.55% (this school: 37.2%)
- **iLEAD Hybrid** — 0.1 mi away, 40.95% (this school: 37.2%)
- **Vasquez High** — 1.2 mi away, 41.5% (this school: 37.2%)
- **Anaverde Hills** — 5.2 mi away, 48.3% (this school: 37.2%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 6.8 mi away, 56.4% (this school: 37.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 6.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ocotillo Elementary** — 6.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 8.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rancho Vista Elementary** — 9.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Gregg Anderson Academy** — 9.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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