# Hercules High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063255008691`
- **School name**: Hercules High
- **Location**: Hercules, CA 94547
- **Address**: 1900 Refugio Valley Rd.
- **District**: West Contra Costa Unified (LEAID `0632550`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.99896, -122.25156
- **Phone**: (510)231-1429
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5736488 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Middle/High_School
- **Founded**: 2001

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 767
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 41.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.4% proficient — 160 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 92.1% (cohort of 165)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 211)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.2% (121 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: 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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 43.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.8% — 58 students
- **English Learners**: 7.2% — 53 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 70 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $6,194
- **Federal share**: $1,621
- **State + local share**: $4,573
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 740
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,299,787
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 46.9%
- **Local share**: 42.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,509,805

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $145,987
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,321
- **Foreign-born residents**: 28.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.1 miles (UNITED HECKATHORN CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.13 miles (PROPOSED HERCULES MIDDLE SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SONOMA RANCH MUTUAL WATER COMPANY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.80968 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **John Swett High** — 4.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)
- **Middle College High** — 5.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)
- **Benicia High** — 6.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)
- **Alhambra Senior High** — 6.4 mi away, 0.28% (this school: 0.95%)
- **Liberty High** — 6.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.95%)

### ela proficiency
- **Hercules Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 49.75% (this school: 40.2%)
- **Hanna Ranch Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52.35% (this school: 40.2%)
- **Ellerhorst Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 53.85% (this school: 40.2%)
- **Stewart Elementary** — 2.2 mi away, 43.25% (this school: 40.2%)
- **Valley View Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 42.1% (this school: 40.2%)

### graduation rate
- **Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy** — 4.3 mi away, 96.2% (this school: 92.1%)
- **Summit Public School: Tamalpais** — 4.4 mi away, 94.3% (this school: 92.1%)
- **Middle College High** — 5.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 92.1%)
- **Summit Public School K2** — 6.1 mi away, 93.1% (this school: 92.1%)
- **Benicia High** — 6.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 92.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Hercules Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Lupine Hills Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Hanna Ranch Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Ellerhorst Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Collins Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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