# Mira Costa High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mira-costa-high-manhattan-beach/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/mira-costa-high-manhattan-beach

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060002506328`
- **School name**: Mira Costa High
- **Location**: Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
- **Address**: 1401 Artesia Blvd.
- **District**: Manhattan Beach Unified (LEAID `0600025`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.87470, -118.38940
- **Phone**: (310)318-7337
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6872198 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Costa_High_School
- **Founded**: 1950

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,473
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 100
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 7.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 66.1% proficient — 597 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 99.4% (cohort of 627)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 632)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 243

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (23 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [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)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.4%
- **Black/African American**: 10.2%
- **Asian**: 1.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 12.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 6.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.6% — 272 students
- **English Learners**: 0.6% — 16 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 86 students
- **Autism**: 48 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 48 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,539
- **Federal share**: $1,267
- **State + local share**: $15,272
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,568
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,888,072
- **Federal share**: 5.6%
- **State share**: 19.8%
- **Local share**: 74.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,189,337

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $181,518
- **Poverty rate**: 3.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 78.7%
- **Unemployment**: 1.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,259
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.5 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 103
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.62 miles (HAWTHORNE CITY OF)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MANHATTAN BEACH-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6294 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Aurelia Pennekamp Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 75.85% (this school: 66.05%)
- **Hermosa Valley Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 73.9% (this school: 66.05%)
- **Hermosa Vista** — 0.8 mi away, 71% (this school: 66.05%)
- **Birney Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 68.8% (this school: 66.05%)
- **Opal Robinson Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 75.75% (this school: 66.05%)

### graduation rate
- **El Segundo High** — 3.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)
- **Boys Academic Leadership Academy** — 6.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)
- **Palos Verdes High** — 6.7 mi away, 99.5% (this school: 99.4%)
- **University Pathways Medical Magnet Academy** — 7.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)
- **Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High** — 8.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Aurelia Pennekamp Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Hermosa View Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Hermosa Valley Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Hermosa Vista** — 0.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Opal Robinson Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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