# Independence High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independence-high-paso-robles/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060004812391`
- **School name**: Independence High
- **Location**: Paso Robles, CA 93446
- **Address**: 812 Niblick Rd.
- **District**: Paso Robles Joint Unified (LEAID `0600048`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.61552, -120.67069
- **Phone**: (805)769-1620

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 137
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 6
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 32.7% proficient — 35 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 87.9% (cohort of 33)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 20)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 46.9% (61 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (3 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 37.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 58.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 63.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.5% — 7 students
- **English Learners**: 3.9% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,947
- **Federal share**: $1,174
- **State + local share**: $17,773
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 127
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,082,276
- **Federal share**: 11.2%
- **State share**: 33.8%
- **Local share**: 55.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,633,889

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,865
- **Poverty rate**: 9.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,052
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.7 miles (KLAU BUENA VISTA MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 32.61 miles (PISMO BEACH BELLO ST 1000)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.89782 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Paso Robles High** — 0.1 mi away, 50.1% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Pat Butler Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 55.75% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Almond Acres Charter Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 39.1% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Daniel Lewis Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 38.5% (this school: 32.7%)
- **Winifred Pifer Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 46.45% (this school: 32.7%)

### graduation rate
- **Paso Robles High** — 0.1 mi away, 92.5% (this school: 87.9%)
- **Templeton Independent Study High** — 5.4 mi away, 92.7% (this school: 87.9%)
- **Templeton High** — 5.6 mi away, 97.7% (this school: 87.9%)
- **Atascadero High** — 9.1 mi away, 95.9% (this school: 87.9%)
- **Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE)** — 11.0 mi away, 98.1% (this school: 87.9%)

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