# Buhach Colony High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062466008741`
- **School name**: Buhach Colony High
- **Location**: Atwater, CA 95301
- **Address**: 1800 Buhach Rd.
- **District**: Merced Union High (LEAID `0624660`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.34838, -120.57457
- **Phone**: (209)325-1400
- **Website**: http://bchs.muhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4986287 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buhach_Colony_High_School
- **Founded**: 2001

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,704
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 75
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.4% proficient — 379 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 99.0% (cohort of 419)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 431)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 22

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 95.0% (1,769 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.3% (54 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (21 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**: 73.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.5% — 141 students
- **English Learners**: 10.1% — 167 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 120 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,560
- **Federal share**: $1,548
- **State + local share**: $12,012
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,658
### 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**: $83,714
- **Poverty rate**: 20.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,373
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.4 miles (CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE 6 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.41 miles (REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MERCED BROWNFIELD)

### 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**: 5.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Livingston High** — 8.3 mi away, 3.24% (this school: 3.26%)
- **Merced County Juvenile Court** — 11.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.26%)
- **Delhi High** — 13.0 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 3.26%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 46.8% (this school: 41.2%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 41.2%)
- **Peggy Heller Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 49.25% (this school: 41.2%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 1.9 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 41.2%)
- **Elmer Wood Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 57.6% (this school: 41.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Livingston High** — 8.3 mi away, 99.3% (this school: 99%)

### math proficiency
- **Bellevue Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Shaffer Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Thomas Olaeta Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Peggy Heller Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Mitchell Intermediate** — 1.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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