# Pasadena High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062994004684`
- **School name**: Pasadena High
- **Location**: Pasadena, CA 91107
- **Address**: 2925 East Sierra Madre Blvd.
- **District**: Pasadena Unified (LEAID `0629940`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.16203, -118.09210
- **Phone**: (626)396-5880
- **Website**: http://phs.pusd.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7141541 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena_High_School_(California)
- **Founded**: 1884

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,303
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 71
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.8% proficient — 306 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 94.4% (cohort of 341)
- **2021**: 93.0% (cohort of 451)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 14

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.3% (226 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (8 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**: 71.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.6% — 238 students
- **English Learners**: 6.9% — 94 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 105 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 37 students
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 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**: $26,901
- **Federal share**: $3,631
- **State + local share**: $23,270
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,355
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,845,413
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 40.3%
- **Local share**: 45.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,844,313

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $126,488
- **Poverty rate**: 2.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 69.5%
- **Unemployment**: 1.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,618
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.7 miles (SAN GABRIEL VALLEY AREA 3)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.88 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PASADENA WATER AND POWER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.8208 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **San Marino High** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.62%)
- **Temple City High** — 3.4 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 1.62%)
- **Temple City Alternative** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.62%)
- **Arcadia High** — 3.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.62%)
- **Dr. Doug Sears Learning Center** — 4.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.62%)

### ela proficiency
- **Marshall Fundamental** — 1.2 mi away, 64.25% (this school: 60.4%)
- **Sierra Madre Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 71.35% (this school: 60.4%)
- **Longfellow (Henry W.) Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 64.9% (this school: 60.4%)
- **Carver Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 75.2% (this school: 60.4%)
- **San Marino High** — 2.6 mi away, 81.75% (this school: 60.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Marshall Fundamental** — 1.2 mi away, 96.4% (this school: 94.4%)
- **San Marino High** — 2.6 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 94.4%)
- **Temple City High** — 3.4 mi away, 97.9% (this school: 94.4%)
- **Arcadia High** — 3.8 mi away, 97.3% (this school: 94.4%)
- **John Muir High** — 4.0 mi away, 96.5% (this school: 94.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Norma Coombs Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Marshall Fundamental** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Don Benito Fundamental** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Sierra Madre Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Longfellow (Henry W.) Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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