# Helix High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/helix-high-la-mesa/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/helix-high-la-mesa

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060221102023`
- **School name**: Helix High
- **Location**: La Mesa, CA 91941
- **Address**: 7323 University Ave.
- **District**: Helix High District (LEAID `0602211`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 32.75382, -117.03642
- **Phone**: (619)644-1940

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,554
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 109
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 71.6% proficient — 593 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.9% (cohort of 574)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 558)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 3

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% (1 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 46.5%
- **Black/African American**: 5.9%
- **Asian**: 11.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 24.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 10.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.1% — 232 students
- **English Learners**: 5.3% — 135 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,204,305
- **Federal share**: 9.5%
- **State share**: 44.8%
- **Local share**: 45.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,792,445

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $71,667
- **Poverty rate**: 17.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,520
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 42.1 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.52 miles (SECOND CHANCE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HELIX WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.25112 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Grossmont Middle College High** — 4.7 mi away, 79.2% (this school: 75.8%)
- **Eastlake High** — 8.8 mi away, 76.1% (this school: 75.8%)
- **Mt. Everest Academy** — 9.8 mi away, 77.6% (this school: 75.8%)
- **Scripps Ranch High** — 11.6 mi away, 77.35% (this school: 75.8%)
- **Scripps Elementary** — 12.5 mi away, 77.4% (this school: 75.8%)

### graduation rate
- **The O'Farrell Charter** — 4.0 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 97.9%)
- **Health Sciences High and Middle College** — 4.3 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 97.9%)
- **San Diego SCPA** — 5.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 97.9%)
- **Steele Canyon High** — 6.7 mi away, 98.3% (this school: 97.9%)
- **East Village Middle College High** — 7.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 97.9%)

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