# Whittier High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064248006955`
- **School name**: Whittier High
- **Location**: Whittier, CA 90601
- **Address**: 12417 East Philadelphia St.
- **District**: Whittier Union High (LEAID `0642480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.98021, -118.04410
- **Phone**: (562)698-8121
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7996874 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier_High_School
- **Founded**: 1900

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,652
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 77
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 85.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 57.1% proficient — 377 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.1% (cohort of 418)
- **2021**: 94.0% (cohort of 397)

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.6% (49 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (33 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**: 86.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.4% — 315 students
- **English Learners**: 7.9% — 135 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 173 students
- **Autism**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $22,438
- **Federal share**: $956
- **State + local share**: $21,482
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,710
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,781,458
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 61.9%
- **Local share**: 27.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,940,415

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $89,500
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,849
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.7 miles (OMEGA CHEMICAL CORPORATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 4
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 134
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.72 miles (GREENWAY TRAIL EAST EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHITTIER-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Orange Grove Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.82%)
- **El Rancho High** — 2.6 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 0.82%)
- **Ruben Salazar Continuation** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.82%)
- **California High** — 2.8 mi away, 0.8% (this school: 0.82%)
- **La Serna High** — 3.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.82%)

### ela proficiency
- **Ocean View Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 61% (this school: 54.55%)
- **Pioneer High** — 2.1 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 54.55%)
- **East Whittier Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 58.95% (this school: 54.55%)
- **California High** — 2.8 mi away, 63.4% (this school: 54.55%)
- **La Serna High** — 3.2 mi away, 71.45% (this school: 54.55%)

### graduation rate
- **Pioneer High** — 2.1 mi away, 98.1% (this school: 97.1%)
- **California High** — 2.8 mi away, 97.7% (this school: 97.1%)
- **La Serna High** — 3.2 mi away, 98.8% (this school: 97.1%)
- **Downey High** — 5.5 mi away, 97.5% (this school: 97.1%)
- **Glen A. Wilson High** — 5.7 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 97.1%)

### math proficiency
- **East Whittier Middle** — 2.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **La Serna High** — 3.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Santa Fe High** — 3.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Unsworth (Edith) Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Murphy Ranch Elementary** — 4.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

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