# Mt. Carmel High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063153004890`
- **School name**: Mt. Carmel High
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92129
- **Address**: 9550 Carmel Mountain Rd.
- **District**: Poway Unified (LEAID `0631530`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.96670, -117.12210
- **Phone**: (858)484-1180
- **Website**: https://www.powayusd.com/pusdmchs
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14683438 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Carmel_High_School_(San_Diego)
- **Founded**: 1974

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,800
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 77
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 17.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 64.6% proficient — 410 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.9% (cohort of 469)
- **2021**: 98.0% (cohort of 463)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 136

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (36 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.1% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (7 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**: 17.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.4% — 263 students
- **English Learners**: 3.0% — 55 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 77 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 66 students
- **Autism**: 36 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,556
- **Federal share**: $652
- **State + local share**: $14,904
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,831
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,020,175
- **Federal share**: 6.4%
- **State share**: 39.4%
- **Local share**: 54.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,559,985

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $170,805
- **Poverty rate**: 2.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 71.1%
- **Unemployment**: 7.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,432
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.7 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.36 miles (317 153 24 25 26 AND 27)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN DIEGO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.78877 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Westview High** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.11%)
- **Del Norte High** — 3.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.11%)
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 3.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.11%)
- **Canyon Crest Academy** — 4.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.11%)
- **Scripps Ranch High** — 4.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.11%)

### ela proficiency
- **Adobe Bluffs Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 73.55% (this school: 65.3%)
- **Deer Canyon Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 69.1% (this school: 65.3%)
- **Mesa Verde Middle** — 1.5 mi away, 70.9% (this school: 65.3%)
- **Los Penasquitos Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 71.8% (this school: 65.3%)
- **Westview High** — 1.5 mi away, 80.15% (this school: 65.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Westview High** — 1.5 mi away, 96.1% (this school: 95.9%)
- **Del Norte High** — 3.3 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 95.9%)
- **Rancho Bernardo High** — 3.8 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 95.9%)
- **Canyon Crest Academy** — 4.0 mi away, 99.5% (this school: 95.9%)
- **Scripps Ranch High** — 4.0 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 95.9%)

### math proficiency
- **Sunset Hills Elementary** — 0.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Adobe Bluffs Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Los Penasquitos Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Westview High** — 1.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Shoal Creek Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

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

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