# ABC Secondary (Alternative)

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/abc-secondary-alternative-cerritos/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/abc-secondary-alternative-cerritos

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060162010232`
- **School name**: ABC Secondary (Alternative)
- **Location**: Cerritos, CA 90703
- **Address**: 12222 Cuesta Dr.
- **District**: ABC Unified (LEAID `0601620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.87856, -118.07122
- **Phone**: (562)229-7770

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 17
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 4
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 4.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 64.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 36.8% proficient — 11 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 49.5% (cohort of 27)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 119.2% (62 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 70.4%
- **Black/African American**: 11.1%
- **Asian**: 7.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 82.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 44.8% — 13 students
- **English Learners**: 48.3% — 14 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,988
- **Federal share**: $1,988
- **State + local share**: $14,000
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 29
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,956,800
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 68.2%
- **Local share**: 22.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,513,526

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $144,284
- **Poverty rate**: 5.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,510
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.0 miles (WASTE DISPOSAL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 131
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.05 miles (OAK STREET PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CERRITOS - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Kennedy (John F.) Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 59% (this school: 28.4%)
- **Juarez (Benito) Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 39.7% (this school: 28.4%)
- **ABC Virtual Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 54.25% (this school: 28.4%)
- **Arturo Sanchez Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 42% (this school: 28.4%)
- **Ross (Faye) Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 50% (this school: 28.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Tracy (Wilbur) High (Continuation)** — 0.0 mi away, 69.4% (this school: 49.5%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 1.0 mi away, 99.4% (this school: 49.5%)
- **Cerritos High** — 1.0 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 49.5%)
- **Gahr (Richard) High** — 1.4 mi away, 97.6% (this school: 49.5%)
- **John H. Glenn High** — 2.3 mi away, 92.8% (this school: 49.5%)

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