# Atwater High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062466003699`
- **School name**: Atwater High
- **Location**: Atwater, CA 95301
- **Address**: 2201 Fruitland Ave.
- **District**: Merced Union High (LEAID `0624660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.36530, -120.61725
- **Phone**: (209)325-1200
- **Website**: http://ahs.muhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4818836 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atwater_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,029
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 98
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 82.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.8% proficient — 450 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.8% (cohort of 504)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 458)

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 101.1% (2,038 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.1% (84 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (32 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**: 80.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.3% — 211 students
- **English Learners**: 13.2% — 270 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 108 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 30 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,130
- **Federal share**: $1,908
- **State + local share**: $11,222
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,051
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,884,048
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 67.1%
- **Local share**: 19.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,409,233

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,885
- **Poverty rate**: 27.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 11.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,104
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.9 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.01 miles (CITY OF LIVINGSTON CORRIDOR STUDY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF ATWATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.83439 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Buhach Colony High** — 2.6 mi away, 3.26% (this school: 4.1%)
- **Livingston High** — 5.8 mi away, 3.24% (this school: 4.1%)
- **Delhi High** — 10.4 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 4.1%)
- **Merced County Juvenile Court** — 12.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.1%)
- **Hilmar High** — 13.1 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 4.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 40.9%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 1.0 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 40.9%)
- **Winton Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 44.5% (this school: 40.9%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 61.75% (this school: 40.9%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 40.9%)

### graduation rate
- **Buhach Colony High** — 2.6 mi away, 99% (this school: 97.8%)
- **Livingston High** — 5.8 mi away, 99.3% (this school: 97.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Aileen Colburn Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mitchell Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Frank Sparkes Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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