# Foothill High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954002344`
- **School name**: Foothill High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93306
- **Address**: 501 Park Dr.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.36553, -118.91653
- **Phone**: (661)366-4491
- **Website**: http://foothill.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5466485 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foothill_High_School_(Bakersfield,_California)
- **Founded**: 1962

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,043
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 85
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 40.4% proficient — 421 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 86.6% (cohort of 537)
- **2021**: 82.0% (cohort of 424)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.1% (450 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.2% (5 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 90.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 2.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.7% — 262 students
- **English Learners**: 11.6% — 240 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 137 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,300
- **Federal share**: $2,092
- **State + local share**: $16,208
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,063
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,038,145
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,976,157

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $29,136
- **Poverty rate**: 46.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 8.0%
- **Unemployment**: 12.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,111
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 33.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.4 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.38 miles (231 QUANTICO AVENUE)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 15.6697 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Highland High** — 2.6 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 0.39%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 7.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.39%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 7.9 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 0.39%)
- **Ridgeview High** — 10.1 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.39%)
- **Centennial High** — 10.4 mi away, 0.09% (this school: 0.39%)

### ela proficiency
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 57.95% (this school: 53.2%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 3.0 mi away, 58% (this school: 53.2%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 53.9% (this school: 53.2%)
- **Bessie E. Owens Elementary** — 4.3 mi away, 53.25% (this school: 53.2%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 5.6 mi away, 68.45% (this school: 53.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Highland High** — 2.6 mi away, 88.9% (this school: 86.6%)
- **Valley Oaks Charter** — 6.1 mi away, 89.7% (this school: 86.6%)
- **South High** — 6.2 mi away, 90.3% (this school: 86.6%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 7.4 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 86.6%)
- **Golden Valley High** — 7.9 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 86.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Horace Mann Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Mt. Vernon Elementary** — 3.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Williams Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Washington Middle** — 4.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **McKinley Elementary** — 5.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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