# Pacific Collegiate Charter

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pacific-collegiate-charter-santa-cruz/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/pacific-collegiate-charter-santa-cruz

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060254208363`
- **School name**: Pacific Collegiate Charter
- **Location**: Santa Cruz, CA 95060
- **Address**: 3004 Mission St.
- **District**: Pacific Collegiate Charter District (LEAID `0602542`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 36.96058, -122.05985
- **Phone**: (831)479-7785

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 536
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 9.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 70.8% proficient — 273 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.0% (cohort of 89)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 88)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 19

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 6.4% (13 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (4 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**: 16.3%
- **Black/African American**: 6.7%
- **Asian**: 0.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 66.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 10.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 10.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.1% — 22 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 5 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,825,540
- **Federal share**: 2.2%
- **State share**: 35.7%
- **Local share**: 62.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,438,849

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $95,893
- **Poverty rate**: 18.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 60.2%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,883
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.5 miles (WATKINS JOHNSON CO STEWART DIVISION PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.42 miles (POGONIP FARM AND GARDEN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA CRUZ WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.20139 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Santa Cruz High** — 1.6 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 6.4%)
- **Santa Cruz County Court** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.4%)
- **Costanoa Continuation High** — 2.9 mi away, 3.45% (this school: 6.4%)
- **Harbor High** — 4.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.4%)
- **Ocean Alternative Education Center** — 4.4 mi away, 4.3% (this school: 6.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Santa Cruz High** — 1.6 mi away, 96.8% (this school: 91%)
- **Ark Independent Studies** — 2.9 mi away, 93.8% (this school: 91%)
- **Harbor High** — 4.1 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 91%)
- **Soquel High** — 5.9 mi away, 96.4% (this school: 91%)
- **San Lorenzo Valley High** — 7.1 mi away, 94.9% (this school: 91%)

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