# San Diego SCPA

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/san-diego-scpa-san-diego

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063432008962`
- **School name**: San Diego SCPA
- **Location**: San Diego, CA 92139
- **Address**: 2425 Dusk Dr.
- **District**: San Diego Unified (LEAID `0634320`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.67978, -117.04857
- **Phone**: (619)470-0555
- **Website**: https://scpa.sandiegounified.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7413716 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_School_of_Creative_and_Performing_Arts
- **Founded**: 1978

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,297
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 52
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 51.5% proficient — 658 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 100.0% (cohort of 173)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 169)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 37

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 9.0% (47 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.0% (92 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (10 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.7% — 123 students
- **English Learners**: 2.7% — 34 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 70 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 43 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,565
- **Federal share**: $3,688
- **State + local share**: $14,877
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,275
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,705,281
- **Federal share**: 14.4%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 60.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,484,916

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,594
- **Poverty rate**: 10.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.6%
- **Unemployment**: 5.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,836
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 46.5 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.26 miles (SECOND CHANCE)

### 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**: 9.9444 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Morse High** — 1.5 mi away, 3.97% (this school: 9%)
- **The O'Farrell Charter** — 1.8 mi away, 8.5% (this school: 9%)
- **Altus Schools South Bay** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 9%)
- **San Diego Workforce Innovation High** — 2.3 mi away, 5.42% (this school: 9%)
- **Sweetwater High** — 3.0 mi away, 0.91% (this school: 9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Allen (Ella B.) Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 67.3% (this school: 58.75%)
- **Clear View** — 2.4 mi away, 68.25% (this school: 58.75%)
- **Hilltop Senior High** — 3.0 mi away, 61.45% (this school: 58.75%)
- **Halecrest Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 60.45% (this school: 58.75%)
- **Discovery Charter** — 3.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 58.75%)

### math proficiency
- **Allen (Ella B.) Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 80% (this school: 38%)
- **The O'Farrell Charter** — 1.8 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Clear View** — 2.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Rosebank Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Halecrest Elementary** — 3.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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

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