# Sweetwater High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063864006495`
- **School name**: Sweetwater High
- **Location**: National City, CA 91950
- **Address**: 2900 Highland Ave.
- **District**: Sweetwater Union High (LEAID `0638640`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 32.65955, -117.09392
- **Phone**: (619)474-9700
- **Website**: https://suh.sweetwaterschools.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7655804 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetwater_High_School_(National_City,_California)
- **Founded**: 1921

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,290
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 90
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.1% proficient — 595 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.3% (cohort of 681)
- **2021**: 84.0% (cohort of 763)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.4% (488 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (24 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**: 89.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.5% — 425 students
- **English Learners**: 27.8% — 674 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 220 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 43 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 41 students
- **Autism**: 25 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,403,797
- **Federal share**: $1,770,198
- **State + local share**: $18,633,599
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,425
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,289,767
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 58.4%
- **Local share**: 32.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,297,535

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,303
- **Poverty rate**: 12.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.5%
- **Unemployment**: 1.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,577
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 46.9 miles (CAMP PENDLETON MARINE CORPS BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 29
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.50 miles (SITE NO 307B)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.9444 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Altus Schools South Bay** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.91%)
- **Hilltop Senior High** — 2.6 mi away, 0.27% (this school: 0.91%)
- **Castle Park Senior High** — 4.4 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 0.91%)
- **Discovery Charter** — 4.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.91%)
- **Alta Vista Academy** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.91%)

### ela proficiency
- **Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 54.6% (this school: 41.55%)
- **Mueller Charter (Robert L.)** — 2.3 mi away, 50.35% (this school: 41.55%)
- **Hilltop Senior High** — 2.6 mi away, 61.45% (this school: 41.55%)
- **Hilltop Drive Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 41.8% (this school: 41.55%)
- **Valley Vista Elementary** — 2.7 mi away, 42.05% (this school: 41.55%)

### graduation rate
- **Mueller Charter (Robert L.)** — 2.3 mi away, 97.3% (this school: 91.3%)
- **Hilltop Senior High** — 2.6 mi away, 94% (this school: 91.3%)
- **Chula Vista Learning Community Charter** — 2.8 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 91.3%)
- **San Diego SCPA** — 3.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 91.3%)
- **Options Secondary** — 3.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 91.3%)

### math proficiency
- **National City Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Hawking S.T.E.A.M. Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Feaster (Mae L.) Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rosebank Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Granger Junior High** — 1.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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