# Ernest Righetti High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063567006083`
- **School name**: Ernest Righetti High
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93455
- **Address**: 941 East Foster Rd.
- **District**: Santa Maria Joint Union High (LEAID `0635670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.88370, -120.42124
- **Phone**: (805)937-2051
- **Website**: http://erhs.smjuhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5393739 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Righetti_High_School
- **Founded**: 1963

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,416
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 114
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.0% proficient — 523 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.3% (cohort of 585)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 493)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 12

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.8% (93 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (18 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (46 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**: 60.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.1% — 318 students
- **English Learners**: 14.8% — 359 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 128 students
- **Autism**: 36 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Deaf-Blindness**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,122
- **Federal share**: $1,775
- **State + local share**: $16,347
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,424
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,818,349
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 59.5%
- **Local share**: 32.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,491,507

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $113,930
- **Poverty rate**: 4.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 31.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,031
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.1 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.86 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA MARIA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 0.74%)
- **Jimenez Roberto and Dr. Francisco Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 0.74%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 12.1 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 0.74%)
- **Cabrillo High** — 12.2 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 0.74%)

### ela proficiency
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 67.45% (this school: 61%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 1.9 mi away, 69.25% (this school: 61%)
- **Manzanita Public Charter** — 10.6 mi away, 65.7% (this school: 61%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 12.1 mi away, 81.8% (this school: 61%)

### graduation rate
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 1.3 mi away, 94.6% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Delta High** — 1.4 mi away, 93.6% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 1.9 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 5.2 mi away, 95.5% (this school: 93.3%)
- **Nipomo High** — 12.0 mi away, 93.7% (this school: 93.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Patterson Road Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 1.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Manzanita Public Charter** — 10.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 12.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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