# Yerba Buena High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061182001310`
- **School name**: Yerba Buena High
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95122
- **Address**: 1855 Lucretia Ave.
- **District**: East Side Union High (LEAID `0611820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.32080, -121.85010
- **Phone**: (408)347-4700
- **Website**: http://yerbabuena.esuhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q8052540 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_Buena_High_School
- **Founded**: 1971

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,612
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 67
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 50.5% proficient — 391 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.3% (cohort of 373)
- **2021**: 85.0% (cohort of 466)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 337

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.4% (180 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (11 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 46.2%
- **Black/African American**: 49.8%
- **Asian**: 0.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 54.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 169 students
- **English Learners**: 26.7% — 433 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 95 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,113
- **Federal share**: $1,131
- **State + local share**: $15,982
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,621
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,623,283
- **Federal share**: 6.6%
- **State share**: 44.9%
- **Local share**: 48.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,944,607

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,750
- **Poverty rate**: 13.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,125
- **Foreign-born residents**: 58.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.8 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 51
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.53 miles (950 SOUTH THIRD STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SAN JOSE WATER
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.386 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Luis Valdez Leadership Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Apollo High** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Downtown College Preparatory** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Alpha Cindy Avitia High** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)
- **Lrng in an Urban Comm with High Achievement (L.U.C.H.A.)** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.31%)

### ela proficiency
- **Luis Valdez Leadership Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 38.9% (this school: 35.25%)
- **College Connection Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 64.45% (this school: 35.25%)
- **Alpha: Cornerstone Academy Preparatory** — 0.3 mi away, 38.45% (this school: 35.25%)
- **Shirakawa (George Sr.) Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 41.75% (this school: 35.25%)
- **Jeanne R. Meadows Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 40.45% (this school: 35.25%)

### graduation rate
- **Luis Valdez Leadership Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 92.2% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Apollo High** — 1.3 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Downtown College Preparatory** — 1.3 mi away, 96% (this school: 90.3%)
- **Alpha Cindy Avitia High** — 1.4 mi away, 91.5% (this school: 90.3%)
- **University Preparatory Academy Charter** — 2.4 mi away, 98% (this school: 90.3%)

### math proficiency
- **College Connection Academy** — 0.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Shirakawa (George Sr.) Elementary** — 0.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Jeanne R. Meadows Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **KIPP Heartwood Academy** — 1.3 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Rocketship Alma Academy** — 1.6 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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