# Academy of Careers and Exploration

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/academy-of-careers-and-exploration-helendale

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061686012368`
- **School name**: Academy of Careers and Exploration
- **Location**: Helendale, CA 92342
- **Address**: 13943 Rivers Edge Rd.
- **District**: Helendale Elementary (LEAID `0616860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 34.73451, -117.35832
- **Phone**: (760)952-1266
- **Website**: https://www.helendalesd.com/schools/a_c_e_and_r_m_s_school

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 285
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 46.0% proficient — 70 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.3% (cohort of 58)
- **2021**: 84.5% (cohort of 59)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 15.4% (2 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.8% (8 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**: 51.0%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 9.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 36.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.7%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 51.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.7% — 56 students
- **English Learners**: 4.6% — 13 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,225
- **Federal share**: $3,155
- **State + local share**: $27,070
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 284
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,606,486
- **Federal share**: 7.6%
- **State share**: 72.1%
- **Local share**: 20.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,487,292

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $111,857
- **Poverty rate**: 3.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,585
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 9.7 miles (GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.31 miles (FORMER NUWAY DRY CLEANING SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HELENDALE COMMUNITY SERVICE DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.08853 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Independence Charter Academy** — 1.7 mi away, 7.9% (this school: 15.4%)
- **George Visual and Performing Arts Magnet and Middle** — 11.4 mi away, 14.1% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Gus Franklin Jr.** — 13.3 mi away, 13.2% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Sixth Street Prep** — 14.3 mi away, 5.6% (this school: 15.4%)
- **Goodwill High** — 14.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 15.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Sixth Street Prep** — 14.3 mi away, 74.75% (this school: 49%)
- **Academy for Academic Excellence** — 14.7 mi away, 59.05% (this school: 49%)

### math proficiency
- **Helendale Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Challenger School of Sports and Fitness** — 13.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Sixth Street Prep** — 14.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **Academy for Academic Excellence** — 14.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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