# Ponderosa High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ponderosa-high-shingle-springs/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/ponderosa-high-shingle-springs

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061207001344`
- **School name**: Ponderosa High
- **Location**: Shingle Springs, CA 95682
- **Address**: 3661 Ponderosa Rd.
- **District**: El Dorado Union High (LEAID `0612070`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 38.67380, -120.94200
- **Phone**: (530)677-2281
- **Website**: http://bruin.eduhsd.k12.ca.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7227708 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponderosa_High_School_(California)
- **Founded**: 1963

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,675
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 72
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 17.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 65.0% proficient — 397 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.0% (cohort of 421)
- **2021**: 94.0% (cohort of 467)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 59

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.5% (156 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 13
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.5%
- **Black/African American**: 4.0%
- **Asian**: 1.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 71.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 17.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 240 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 117 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 43 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,217
- **Federal share**: $876
- **State + local share**: $14,341
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,689
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,644,825
- **Federal share**: 6.8%
- **State share**: 43.5%
- **Local share**: 49.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,783,415

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $120,083
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.2%
- **Unemployment**: 6.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,801
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.6 miles (AEROJET GENERAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.12 miles (NEW LONDON MINE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: Red Hawk Casino - Shingle Springs
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.98769 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Charter Community School Home Study Academy** — 5.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.36%)
- **El Dorado Co Office of Ed Special Ed Programs** — 5.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.36%)
- **Pacific Crest Academy** — 5.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.36%)
- **Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter** — 6.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.36%)
- **Oak Ridge High** — 6.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.36%)

### ela proficiency
- **Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter** — 6.3 mi away, 79.7% (this school: 65.5%)
- **Charter Montessori Valley View Campus** — 6.6 mi away, 71.2% (this school: 65.5%)
- **Rising Sun Montessori** — 7.2 mi away, 69.95% (this school: 65.5%)
- **Jackson Elementary** — 7.8 mi away, 65.6% (this school: 65.5%)
- **Russell Ranch Elementary** — 8.2 mi away, 67.65% (this school: 65.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Pacific Crest Academy** — 5.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 96%)
- **Sky Mountain Charter** — 6.7 mi away, 97% (this school: 96%)
- **Oak Ridge High** — 6.9 mi away, 98% (this school: 96%)
- **John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills** — 7.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 96%)
- **El Dorado High** — 8.1 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 96%)

### math proficiency
- **California Montessori Project-Shingle Springs Campus** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Rescue Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Camerado Springs Middle** — 3.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Blue Oak Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Oak Meadow Elementary** — 6.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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