# Independence High (Alternative)

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independence-high-alternative-merced

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062466008164`
- **School name**: Independence High (Alternative)
- **Location**: Merced, CA 95340
- **Address**: 1900 G St.
- **District**: Merced Union High (LEAID `0624660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.30056, -120.47432
- **Phone**: (209)325-1600
- **Website**: http://ihs.muhsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 87
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 10
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 88.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 28.5% proficient — 23 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 85.2% (cohort of 61)
- **2021**: 77.0% (cohort of 68)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 89.3% (67 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 13.0% (12 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.6% — 18 students
- **English Learners**: 1.1% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,616
- **Federal share**: $1,539
- **State + local share**: $26,077
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 92
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,884,048
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 19.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,409,233

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $39,042
- **Poverty rate**: 39.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.2%
- **Unemployment**: 12.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,197
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.7 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 15
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.62 miles (FORMER SIMPSON CLEANER S PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCED
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Buhach Colony High** — 6.4 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 4.35%)
- **Merced County Juvenile Court** — 8.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.35%)
- **Atwater High** — 9.0 mi away, 4.1% (this school: 4.35%)
- **Le Grand High** — 13.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.35%)
- **Granada High** — 13.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.35%)

### ela proficiency
- **John Muir Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 34.6% (this school: 28.5%)
- **Herbert Hoover Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 52.7% (this school: 28.5%)
- **Charles Wright Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 37.45% (this school: 28.5%)
- **John C. Fremont Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 34.8% (this school: 28.5%)
- **Tenaya Middle** — 1.2 mi away, 35% (this school: 28.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Merced High** — 1.4 mi away, 96.5% (this school: 85.2%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 1.6 mi away, 96% (this school: 85.2%)
- **Merced Scholars Charter** — 2.0 mi away, 97% (this school: 85.2%)
- **El Capitan High** — 4.7 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 85.2%)
- **Buhach Colony High** — 6.4 mi away, 99% (this school: 85.2%)

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