# Buena Park High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/buena-park-high-buena-park

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061476001809`
- **School name**: Buena Park High
- **Location**: Buena Park, CA 90621
- **Address**: 8833 Academy Dr.
- **District**: Fullerton Joint Union High (LEAID `0614760`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.86150, -117.97840
- **Phone**: (714)992-8601
- **Website**: https://www.buenaparkhs.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4985404 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Park_High_School
- **Founded**: 1956

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,682
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 73
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.0% proficient — 381 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.7% (cohort of 412)
- **2021**: 95.0% (cohort of 454)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 9

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.6% (207 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (49 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 80.7%
- **Black/African American**: 8.4%
- **Asian**: 2.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 2.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.6% — 252 students
- **English Learners**: 26.8% — 463 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 110 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 32 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,411
- **Federal share**: $1,144
- **State + local share**: $16,267
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,726
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,271,685
- **Federal share**: 8.3%
- **State share**: 41.3%
- **Local share**: 50.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,080,783

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $79,115
- **Poverty rate**: 16.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.7%
- **Unemployment**: 8.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,854
- **Foreign-born residents**: 36.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.4 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 157
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.55 miles (ROSS PARK EXPANSION)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Sunny Hills High** — 2.0 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.87%)
- **Cambridge Virtual Academy** — 2.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.87%)
- **Fullerton Union High** — 3.4 mi away, 0.49% (this school: 0.87%)
- **Polaris High** — 3.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.87%)
- **John F. Kennedy High** — 3.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.87%)

### ela proficiency
- **Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 50.9% (this school: 48.5%)
- **Dr. Peter Marshall** — 1.4 mi away, 66.15% (this school: 48.5%)
- **Charles G. Emery Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 62.8% (this school: 48.5%)
- **Robert C. Fisler Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 70.1% (this school: 48.5%)
- **Sunny Hills High** — 2.0 mi away, 75.25% (this school: 48.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Savanna High** — 1.9 mi away, 95.4% (this school: 93.7%)
- **Sunny Hills High** — 2.0 mi away, 99.2% (this school: 93.7%)
- **Western High** — 2.9 mi away, 97.1% (this school: 93.7%)
- **Fullerton Union High** — 3.4 mi away, 95.1% (this school: 93.7%)
- **La Mirada High** — 3.5 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 93.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Glen H. Dysinger Sr. Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Dr. Peter Marshall** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Marshall (John) Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Charles G. Emery Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Robert C. Fisler Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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