# West Valley Early College High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/west-valley-early-college-high-cottonwood

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060270007642`
- **School name**: West Valley Early College High
- **Location**: Cottonwood, CA 96022
- **Address**: 3805 Happy Valley Rd.
- **District**: Anderson Union High (LEAID `0602700`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.39642, -122.40489
- **Phone**: (530)347-7171
- **Website**: https://www.auhsd.net
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7986763 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Valley_High_School_(Cottonwood,_California)
- **Founded**: 1981

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 736
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 33
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 37.2% proficient — 135 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.0% (cohort of 149)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 152)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 11

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.7% (143 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 3.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 0.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 72.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.2% — 76 students
- **English Learners**: 1.9% — 14 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 45 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,693
- **Federal share**: $1,891
- **State + local share**: $13,802
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 745
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,695,070
- **Federal share**: 12.6%
- **State share**: 47.7%
- **Local share**: 39.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,043,822

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,609
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,506
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.1 miles (IRON MOUNTAIN MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 13.01 miles (GREYHOUND BUS TERMINAL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: RIO ALTO WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.08607 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Evergreen Community Day School (5-8)** — 4.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.94%)
- **Evergreen Community Day School (K-5)** — 4.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.94%)
- **Anderson Community Day** — 5.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.94%)
- **Anderson High** — 6.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.94%)
- **Anderson New Technology High** — 6.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.94%)

### ela proficiency
- **Evergreen Middle** — 4.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 37.6%)
- **Evergreen Institute of Excellence** — 4.7 mi away, 40.45% (this school: 37.6%)
- **North Cottonwood** — 4.7 mi away, 41.5% (this school: 37.6%)
- **Evergreen Elementary** — 4.9 mi away, 50.6% (this school: 37.6%)
- **Happy Valley Primary** — 6.0 mi away, 43.7% (this school: 37.6%)

### graduation rate
- **Evergreen Institute of Excellence** — 4.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 98%)
- **Northern Summit Academy Shasta** — 7.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 98%)
- **Stellar Charter** — 9.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 98%)
- **Redding Collegiate Academy** — 11.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 98%)

### math proficiency
- **Evergreen Middle** — 4.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **North Cottonwood** — 4.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Happy Valley Primary** — 6.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Tree of Life International Charter** — 6.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Anderson High** — 6.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)

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