# Palmdale High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060282000205`
- **School name**: Palmdale High
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93550
- **Address**: 2137 East Avenue R
- **District**: Antelope Valley Union High (LEAID `0602820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.57430, -118.08890
- **Phone**: (661)273-3181
- **Website**: https://www.phsfalcons.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7128171 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmdale_High_School
- **Founded**: 1956

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,208
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 101
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 68.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 35.4% proficient — 451 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 78.2% (cohort of 694)
- **2021**: 71.0% (cohort of 527)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 447

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.8% (739 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (25 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 79.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 13.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.9% — 494 students
- **English Learners**: 14.6% — 345 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 264 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 47 students
- **Autism**: 46 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 46 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,170
- **Federal share**: $2,786
- **State + local share**: $15,384
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,358
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,549,944
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 64.5%
- **Local share**: 20.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,729,572

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,143
- **Poverty rate**: 25.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,701
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.2 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 27.59 miles (RILEY SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Desert Willow Fine Arts Sci and Tech Magnet Acad** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)
- **William J. (Pete) Knight High** — 4.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)
- **Empower Generations** — 8.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)
- **Littlerock High** — 8.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 9.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.25%)

### ela proficiency
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 41.25% (this school: 27.7%)
- **Tumbleweed Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 28.9% (this school: 27.7%)
- **Manzanita Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 29.3% (this school: 27.7%)
- **Palmdale Academy Charter** — 1.6 mi away, 37.25% (this school: 27.7%)
- **Palm Tree Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 30.2% (this school: 27.7%)

### graduation rate
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 78.2%)
- **William J. (Pete) Knight High** — 4.6 mi away, 92% (this school: 78.2%)
- **Highland High** — 5.1 mi away, 91.3% (this school: 78.2%)
- **Eastside High** — 7.4 mi away, 86.5% (this school: 78.2%)
- **iLEAD Online** — 8.3 mi away, 78.5% (this school: 78.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mesquite Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Palmdale Learning Plaza** — 2.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Barrel Springs Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Chaparral Prep Academy** — 2.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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