# Watsonville High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062949004555`
- **School name**: Watsonville High
- **Location**: Watsonville, CA 95076
- **Address**: 250 East Beach St.
- **District**: Pajaro Valley Unified (LEAID `0629490`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 36.91282, -121.75284
- **Phone**: (831)728-6390
- **Website**: https://www.watsonvillehs.net
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7974897 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watsonville_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,215
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 94
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.8% proficient — 474 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.3% (cohort of 486)
- **2021**: 86.0% (cohort of 476)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.4% (426 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.8% (85 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.7% (60 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**: 92.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.0% — 382 students
- **English Learners**: 26.4% — 594 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 215 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,253
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,285,950
- **Federal share**: 12.9%
- **State share**: 56.5%
- **Local share**: 30.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,654,812

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,995
- **Poverty rate**: 20.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.8%
- **Unemployment**: 13.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,525
- **Foreign-born residents**: 42.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.6 miles (CRAZY HORSE SANITARY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.02 miles (GILROY MONTEREY RD 7301 7363)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.00551 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.77%)
- **New School Community Day** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.77%)
- **Santa Cruz County Career Advancement Charter** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.77%)
- **Pajaro Valley High** — 2.2 mi away, 2.87% (this school: 3.77%)
- **Aptos High** — 7.5 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 3.77%)

### ela proficiency
- **Linscott Charter** — 0.2 mi away, 65.95% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Watsonville Prep** — 0.3 mi away, 32.8% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Ceiba College Preparatory Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 31.45% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Starlight Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 31.4% (this school: 27.9%)
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 1.4 mi away, 61% (this school: 27.9%)

### graduation rate
- **PVUSD Virtual Academy** — 0.0 mi away, 92.6% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Ceiba College Preparatory Academy** — 0.7 mi away, 91.8% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 1.4 mi away, 92.9% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Pajaro Valley High** — 2.2 mi away, 94.2% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Aptos High** — 7.5 mi away, 94.3% (this school: 90.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Linscott Charter** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Diamond Technology Institute** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Watsonville Charter School of the Arts** — 3.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Aromas** — 6.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Aptos High** — 7.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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