# Placer High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063075004784`
- **School name**: Placer High
- **Location**: Auburn, CA 95603
- **Address**: 275 Orange St.
- **District**: Placer Union High (LEAID `0630750`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 38.89528, -121.06992
- **Phone**: (530)885-4581
- **Website**: https://www.puhsd.k12.ca.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7200312 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placer_High_School
- **Founded**: 1897

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,265
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.8% proficient — 309 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.8% (cohort of 311)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 304)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 5

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.1% (150 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (19 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 9
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 30.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.9% — 155 students
- **English Learners**: 7.4% — 96 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 66 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,284
- **Federal share**: $1,350
- **State + local share**: $25,934
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,377
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,735,735
- **Federal share**: 6.7%
- **State share**: 26.9%
- **Local share**: 66.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,689,313

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,266
- **Poverty rate**: 9.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.5%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,475
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.0 miles (AEROJET GENERAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.98 miles (GEORGIA PACIFIC MILL SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PLACER CWA - FOOTHILL
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.1763 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Confluence Continuation High** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.61%)
- **Maidu Virtual Charter Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.61%)
- **Placer County Court Schools** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.61%)
- **Harvest Ridge Cooperative Charter** — 3.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.61%)
- **Del Oro High** — 7.5 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 0.61%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rock Creek Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 63.4%)
- **Newcastle Charter** — 4.0 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 63.4%)
- **Penryn Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 64% (this school: 63.4%)
- **Placer Elementary** — 7.2 mi away, 71.7% (this school: 63.4%)
- **Del Oro High** — 7.5 mi away, 70.7% (this school: 63.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Del Oro High** — 7.5 mi away, 98.8% (this school: 95.8%)
- **Rocklin High** — 11.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 95.8%)
- **Whitney High** — 12.5 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 95.8%)
- **Western Sierra Collegiate Academy** — 13.6 mi away, 98.2% (this school: 95.8%)
- **Granite Bay High** — 13.6 mi away, 96.7% (this school: 95.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Placer County Pathways Charter** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Skyridge Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Bowman Charter** — 2.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Northside Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Ophir STEAM Academy** — 3.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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