# Center for Alternative Learning

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/center-for-alternative-learning-chico/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/center-for-alternative-learning-chico

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060837012830`
- **School name**: Center for Alternative Learning
- **Location**: Chico, CA 95926
- **Address**: 290 East Ave.
- **District**: Chico Unified (LEAID `0608370`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 39.75938, -121.85842
- **Phone**: (530)891-3092
- **Website**: https://www.chicousd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 34
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 2
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 94.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - chronic_absent: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 11)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 75.8% (25 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 240.0% (72 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 29.4% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 82.3% (14 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 8.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 42.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 2.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 37.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 88.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 76.5% — 13 students
- **English Learners**: 11.8% — 2 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,089
- **Federal share**: $6,479
- **State + local share**: $13,610
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 17
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,062,021
- **Federal share**: 13.3%
- **State share**: 51.0%
- **Local share**: 35.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,441,314

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,809
- **Poverty rate**: 22.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.5%
- **Unemployment**: 7.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,341
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.3 miles (KOPPERS CO INC OROVILLE PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.07 miles (CHUCK PATTERSON INC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DEL ORO WATER CO.-PARADISE PINES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.98977 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Fair View High (Continuation)** — 0.0 mi away, 65.79% (this school: 75.8%)
- **Oakdale** — 0.0 mi away, 73.2% (this school: 75.8%)
- **Blue Oak Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 31% (this school: 75.8%)
- **Wildflower Open Classroom** — 0.9 mi away, 28% (this school: 75.8%)
- **McManus (John A.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 20.1% (this school: 75.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Blue Oak Charter** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Wildflower Open Classroom** — 0.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **McManus (John A.) Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Bidwell Junior High** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Citrus Avenue Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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