# La Canada High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062013002408`
- **School name**: La Canada High
- **Location**: La Canada, CA 91011
- **Address**: 4463 Oak Grove Dr.
- **District**: La Canada Unified (LEAID `0620130`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.19306, -118.17913
- **Phone**: (818)952-4205
- **Website**: https://www.lchsspartans.net
- **Wikidata QID**: Q16893814 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ca%C3%B1ada_High_School
- **Founded**: 1963

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,989
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 86
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 4.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Blue
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Blue
  - college_career: Blue
  - ela: Blue
  - chronic_absent: Green
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 78.0% proficient — 1,006 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.6% (cohort of 356)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 319)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 225

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 3.4% (23 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (20 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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 6.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.4% — 170 students
- **English Learners**: 1.8% — 36 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 64 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 40 students
- **Autism**: 25 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,326
- **Federal share**: $455
- **State + local share**: $16,871
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,026
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,955,879
- **Federal share**: 5.5%
- **State share**: 36.0%
- **Local share**: 58.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,615,404

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $196,471
- **Poverty rate**: 6.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 72.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,468
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.9 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.35 miles (7053 FIGUEROA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LA CANADA IRRIGATION DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **John Muir High** — 1.5 mi away, 2.03% (this school: 3.4%)
- **La Canada Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 3.1% (this school: 3.4%)
- **Crescenta Valley High** — 4.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.4%)
- **Glendale High** — 4.5 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 3.4%)
- **Jewel City Community Day** — 5.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Anderson W. Clark Magnet High** — 5.3 mi away, 79.4% (this school: 79%)
- **South Pasadena Senior High** — 6.0 mi away, 79.85% (this school: 79%)
- **San Marino High** — 6.6 mi away, 81.75% (this school: 79%)
- **Science Academy STEM Magnet** — 11.1 mi away, 83.05% (this school: 79%)
- **Wonderland Avenue Elementary** — 12.7 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 79%)

### graduation rate
- **Renaissance Arts Academy** — 6.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.6%)
- **Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High** — 9.4 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 98.6%)
- **STEM Academy at Bernstein High** — 10.2 mi away, 99.3% (this school: 98.6%)
- **Math Science & Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High** — 10.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.6%)
- **Sun Valley Magnet** — 11.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.6%)

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