# Gunderson High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063459005716`
- **School name**: Gunderson High
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95136
- **Address**: 620 Gaundabert Ln.
- **District**: San Jose Unified (LEAID `0634590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.25875, -121.85513
- **Phone**: (408)535-6340
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5618625 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunderson_High_School
- **Founded**: 1976

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 744
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.2% proficient — 182 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.6% (cohort of 237)
- **2021**: 93.0% (cohort of 261)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 85

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.8% (96 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (14 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**: 57.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.6% — 179 students
- **English Learners**: 21.5% — 178 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 85 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 26 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,769
- **Federal share**: $1,611
- **State + local share**: $22,158
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 827
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,727,655
- **Federal share**: 8.7%
- **State share**: 23.6%
- **Local share**: 67.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,538,692

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $216,711
- **Poverty rate**: 1.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,501
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.2 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 27
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.28 miles (ORVIETO FAMILY APARTMENTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.386 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Pioneer High** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.36%)
- **Summit Public School: Tahoma** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.36%)
- **Calero High** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.36%)
- **Santa Teresa High** — 2.2 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 0.36%)
- **Branham High** — 2.5 mi away, 0.1% (this school: 0.36%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rachel Carson Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 54.05% (this school: 48.1%)
- **Del Roble Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 63.4% (this school: 48.1%)
- **Indigo** — 1.3 mi away, 60.25% (this school: 48.1%)
- **Hayes Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 52.95% (this school: 48.1%)
- **Herman (Leonard) Intermediate** — 1.6 mi away, 62.75% (this school: 48.1%)

### graduation rate
- **Pioneer High** — 1.7 mi away, 97% (this school: 91.6%)
- **Summit Public School: Tahoma** — 1.9 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 91.6%)
- **Santa Teresa High** — 2.2 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 91.6%)
- **Branham High** — 2.5 mi away, 95.1% (this school: 91.6%)
- **University Preparatory Academy Charter** — 2.5 mi away, 98% (this school: 91.6%)

### math proficiency
- **Rachel Carson Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Del Roble Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Terrell Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Indigo** — 1.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Hayes Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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