# Paloma Creek High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/paloma-creek-high-atascadero

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060330006562`
- **School name**: Paloma Creek High
- **Location**: Atascadero, CA 93422
- **Address**: 10801 El Camino Real
- **District**: Atascadero Unified (LEAID `0603300`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.45804, -120.63913
- **Phone**: (805)462-4350
- **Website**: https://www.atasusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 55
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 3
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Red
  - ela: Red
  - graduation: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 15.2% proficient — 22 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 75.4% (cohort of 61)
- **2021**: 77.0% (cohort of 65)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 83.9% (52 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 7.1% (6 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 37.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 3.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 56.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.5% — 13 students
- **English Learners**: 6.0% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,946
- **Federal share**: $917
- **State + local share**: $17,029
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 84
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,613,683
- **Federal share**: 6.3%
- **State share**: 30.2%
- **Local share**: 63.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,754,434

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,008
- **Poverty rate**: 14.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,856
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.6 miles (KLAU BUENA VISTA MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 21.68 miles (PISMO BEACH BELLO ST 1000)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ATASCADERO MUTUAL WATER CO
- **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**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE)** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.38%)
- **Templeton High** — 7.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.38%)
- **Eagle Canyon High** — 7.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.38%)
- **Templeton Independent Study High** — 7.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.38%)
- **Templeton Home** — 7.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.38%)

### ela proficiency
- **Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE)** — 0.0 mi away, 29.15% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 39.2% (this school: 17.6%)
- **San Gabriel Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 58.45% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Atascadero High** — 2.5 mi away, 50% (this school: 17.6%)
- **Atascadero Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 48% (this school: 17.6%)

### graduation rate
- **Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE)** — 0.0 mi away, 98.1% (this school: 75.4%)
- **Atascadero High** — 2.5 mi away, 95.9% (this school: 75.4%)
- **Templeton High** — 7.1 mi away, 97.7% (this school: 75.4%)
- **Templeton Independent Study High** — 7.2 mi away, 92.7% (this school: 75.4%)
- **San Luis Obispo County Community** — 9.9 mi away, 88.2% (this school: 75.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **San Gabriel Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Atascadero High** — 2.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Atascadero Middle** — 2.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Fine Arts Academy** — 2.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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