# Pioneer High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pioneer-high-san-jose/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pioneer-high-san-jose

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063459005732`
- **School name**: Pioneer High
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95118
- **Address**: 1290 Blossom Hill Rd.
- **District**: San Jose Unified (LEAID `0634590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.24687, -121.88243
- **Phone**: (408)535-6310
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7196698 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_High_School_(San_Jose,_California)
- **Founded**: 1960

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,393
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 64
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 30.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 65.0% proficient — 345 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.0% (cohort of 361)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 393)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 140

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.1% (113 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.2% (3 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**: 29.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.7% — 142 students
- **English Learners**: 6.9% — 102 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 56 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,409
- **Federal share**: $503
- **State + local share**: $18,906
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,469
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,727,655
- **Federal share**: 8.7%
- **State share**: 23.6%
- **Local share**: 67.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,538,692

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,266
- **Poverty rate**: 13.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,194
- **Foreign-born residents**: 45.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 26
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.51 miles (ORVIETO FAMILY APARTMENTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.386 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Branham High** — 1.0 mi away, 65.6% (this school: 58.5%)
- **Lietz Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 60.75% (this school: 58.5%)
- **Los Alamitos Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 63.2% (this school: 58.5%)
- **Reed Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 67.4% (this school: 58.5%)
- **Guadalupe Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 63.4% (this school: 58.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Leigh High** — 2.1 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 97%)
- **Leland High** — 3.0 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 97%)
- **University Preparatory Academy Charter** — 3.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 97%)
- **Summit Public School: Tahoma** — 3.4 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 97%)
- **Apollo High** — 6.5 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 97%)

### math proficiency
- **Almaden Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Branham High** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Lietz Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Reed Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Hacienda Science/Environmental Magnet** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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