# La Serna High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064248006952`
- **School name**: La Serna High
- **Location**: Whittier, CA 90605
- **Address**: 15301 East Youngwood Dr.
- **District**: Whittier Union High (LEAID `0642480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.95502, -117.99777
- **Phone**: (562)698-8121
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6465247 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Serna_High_School
- **Founded**: 1961

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,372
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 91
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 62.9% proficient — 543 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.8% (cohort of 574)
- **2021**: 98.0% (cohort of 611)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 29

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (42 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (35 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**: 58.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.3% — 221 students
- **English Learners**: 6.9% — 164 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 132 students
- **Autism**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,981
- **Federal share**: $529
- **State + local share**: $19,452
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,385
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,781,458
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 61.9%
- **Local share**: 27.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,940,415

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $142,868
- **Poverty rate**: 3.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 48.8%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,173
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.7 miles (OMEGA CHEMICAL CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 146
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.42 miles (GREENWAY TRAIL EAST EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHITTIER-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Leffingwell Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 71.55% (this school: 71.45%)
- **Glen A. Wilson High** — 4.2 mi away, 75.7% (this school: 71.45%)
- **Wedgeworth Elementary** — 4.5 mi away, 75.45% (this school: 71.45%)
- **D. Russell Parks Junior High** — 5.1 mi away, 73.15% (this school: 71.45%)
- **Sunny Hills High** — 5.5 mi away, 75.25% (this school: 71.45%)

### graduation rate
- **Glen A. Wilson High** — 4.2 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 98.8%)
- **Sunny Hills High** — 5.5 mi away, 99.2% (this school: 98.8%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 6.2 mi away, 99.4% (this school: 98.8%)
- **Oxford Academy** — 9.4 mi away, 99% (this school: 98.8%)
- **Mt. SAC Early College Academy at West Covina** — 9.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Murphy Ranch Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Leffingwell Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Los Altos High** — 3.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Wedgeworth Elementary** — 4.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Hermosa Drive Elementary** — 5.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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