# Phineas Banning Senior High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062271002838`
- **School name**: Phineas Banning Senior High
- **Location**: Wilmington, CA 90744
- **Address**: 1527 Lakme Ave.
- **District**: Los Angeles Unified (LEAID `0622710`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.79452, -118.26138
- **Phone**: (310)847-3700
- **Website**: https://www.banninghs.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4856980 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Banning_High_School
- **Founded**: 1926

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,422
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 138
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.2% proficient — 563 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.4% (cohort of 575)
- **2021**: 91.0% (cohort of 576)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.6% (587 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (11 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 349 students
- **English Learners**: 7.5% — 183 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 202 students
- **Autism**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,549
- **Federal share**: $3,307
- **State + local share**: $16,242
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,437
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,701,983
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 54.5%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,126,340

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,194
- **Poverty rate**: 16.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,717
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.9 miles (DEL AMO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 169
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.20 miles (PLAZA DEL AMO SITE)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 11.3449 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Wilmington Mid Sci Tech Engr Arts Math (STEAM) Magnet** — 0.8 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 0.82%)
- **Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.82%)
- **Carson Senior High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 0.82%)
- **Academies of Education and Empowerment at Carson High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.61% (this school: 0.82%)
- **Academy of Medical Arts at Carson High** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.82%)

### ela proficiency
- **Harry Bridges Span** — 0.5 mi away, 42.25% (this school: 33.6%)
- **Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 83.65% (this school: 33.6%)
- **Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 46.55% (this school: 33.6%)
- **Normont Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 40.05% (this school: 33.6%)
- **Carson Senior High** — 2.1 mi away, 57.7% (this school: 33.6%)

### graduation rate
- **Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 93.4%)
- **Academy of Medical Arts at Carson High** — 2.1 mi away, 96.7% (this school: 93.4%)
- **Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles** — 2.7 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 93.4%)
- **Magnolia Science Academy 3** — 3.8 mi away, 93.9% (this school: 93.4%)
- **Port of Los Angeles High** — 3.9 mi away, 94.2% (this school: 93.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Harry Bridges Span** — 0.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Catskill Avenue Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Dr. Richard A. Vladovic Harbor Teacher Preparation Academy** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Two Hundred Thirty-Second Place Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Normont Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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