# William J. (Pete) Knight High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060282011346`
- **School name**: William J. (Pete) Knight High
- **Location**: Palmdale, CA 93552
- **Address**: 37423 70th St. East
- **District**: Antelope Valley Union High (LEAID `0602820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.56300, -118.00870
- **Phone**: (661)533-9000
- **Website**: https://www.knightpalmdalehs.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7172067 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_High_School
- **Founded**: 2003

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,349
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 102
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 44.8% proficient — 492 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 92.0% (cohort of 721)
- **2021**: 81.0% (cohort of 681)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 668

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.4% (559 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (10 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 80.0%
- **Black/African American**: 1.7%
- **Asian**: 12.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 65.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.1% — 480 students
- **English Learners**: 14.1% — 356 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 229 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 46 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 45 students
- **Autism**: 44 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 18 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 6 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,375
- **Federal share**: $2,028
- **State + local share**: $16,347
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,520
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,549,944
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 64.5%
- **Local share**: 20.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,729,572

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $87,969
- **Poverty rate**: 4.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.2%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,047
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.6 miles (JET PROPULSION LABORATORY NASA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 27.26 miles (FORMER OUTDOOR PASADENA POLICE DEPT FIRING RANGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALMDALE WATER DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 0.1 mi away, 57.4% (this school: 32.4%)
- **Shadow Hills Engineering and Design Magnet Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 34.7% (this school: 32.4%)
- **Quail Valley Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 33.85% (this school: 32.4%)
- **Buena Vista Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 35% (this school: 32.4%)
- **Antelope Valley Learning Academy** — 2.0 mi away, 37.4% (this school: 32.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Palmdale Aerospace Academy** — 3.6 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 92%)
- **Vasquez High** — 12.8 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 92%)
- **SOAR High (Students On Academic Rise)** — 12.9 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 92%)
- **Academies of the Antelope Valley** — 14.9 mi away, 97.4% (this school: 92%)

### math proficiency
- **Los Amigos - Dual Immersion** — 0.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Shadow Hills Engineering and Design Magnet Academy** — 0.9 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Quail Valley Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Chaparral Prep Academy** — 1.8 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Mesquite Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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