# Western Center Academy

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/western-center-academy-hemet/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/western-center-academy-hemet

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061692012464`
- **School name**: Western Center Academy
- **Location**: Hemet, CA 92543
- **Address**: 2345 Searl Pkwy.
- **District**: Hemet Unified (LEAID `0616920`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 33.70568, -116.99236
- **Phone**: (951)766-9030
- **Website**: https://www.westerncenteracademy.com

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 762
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 57.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Blue
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Green
  - college_career: Blue
  - ela: Blue
  - chronic_absent: Yellow
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 70.8% proficient — 468 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.7% (cohort of 78)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 75)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 6

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 5.5% (22 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (8 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: 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**: 1.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 40.7%
- **Black/African American**: 7.8%
- **Asian**: 3.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 40.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 2.4% — 18 students
- **English Learners**: 18.2% — 135 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,993
- **Federal share**: $1,884
- **State + local share**: $20,109
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 741
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,081,679
- **Federal share**: 15.4%
- **State share**: 60.2%
- **Local share**: 24.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,804,702

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $89,148
- **Poverty rate**: 4.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.8%
- **Unemployment**: 4.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,211
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.5 miles (MARCH AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.54 miles (FORMER LAKESIDE CHEVROLET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE HEMET MWD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10492 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **West Valley High** — 1.4 mi away, 1.27% (this school: 5.5%)
- **Alessandro High** — 3.5 mi away, 2.33% (this school: 5.5%)
- **Hemet High** — 3.7 mi away, 0.29% (this school: 5.5%)
- **Tahquitz High** — 4.6 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 5.5%)
- **San Jacinto Leadership Academy - Magnet** — 6.0 mi away, 5.2% (this school: 5.5%)

### graduation rate
- **San Jacinto Valley Academy** — 6.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.7%)
- **Temecula Preparatory** — 8.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.7%)
- **Santa Rosa Academy** — 10.9 mi away, 99.2% (this school: 98.7%)
- **Nuview Bridge Early College High** — 11.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.7%)

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