# Desert Winds Continuation High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060282000204`
- **School name**: Desert Winds Continuation High
- **Location**: Lancaster, CA 93535
- **Address**: 415 East Kettering St.
- **District**: Antelope Valley Union High (LEAID `0602820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.70089, -118.12320
- **Phone**: (661)948-7555
- **Website**: https://www.dwhs.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 605
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 11.8% proficient — 121 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 36.4% (cohort of 313)
- **2021**: 17.0% (cohort of 273)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 255

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 96.7% (667 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.4% (40 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 50.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 34.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.3% — 58 students
- **English Learners**: 11.7% — 73 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,018
- **Federal share**: $1,610
- **State + local share**: $12,408
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 623
### 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**: $47,161
- **Poverty rate**: 12.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.7%
- **Unemployment**: 7.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,465
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 21.8 miles (EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 33.50 miles (ONATE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAND PROJECTS MUTUAL WATER CO.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 108
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.79801 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Antelope Valley High** — 0.4 mi away, 0.53% (this school: 2.25%)
- **Phoenix High Community Day** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.25%)
- **Empower Generations** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.25%)
- **Eastside High** — 3.3 mi away, 0.42% (this school: 2.25%)
- **Lancaster High** — 3.8 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 2.25%)

### ela proficiency
- **Linda Verde Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 24.55% (this school: 15.9%)
- **Antelope Valley High** — 0.4 mi away, 27.9% (this school: 15.9%)
- **Piute Middle** — 0.6 mi away, 19.6% (this school: 15.9%)
- **El Dorado Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 32.9% (this school: 15.9%)
- **Life Source International Charter** — 1.2 mi away, 28% (this school: 15.9%)

### graduation rate
- **Antelope Valley High** — 0.4 mi away, 82.5% (this school: 36.4%)
- **Empower Generations** — 1.6 mi away, 60% (this school: 36.4%)
- **Mission Academy** — 2.4 mi away, 39.5% (this school: 36.4%)
- **Eastside High** — 3.3 mi away, 86.5% (this school: 36.4%)
- **Lancaster High** — 3.8 mi away, 85.1% (this school: 36.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Linda Verde Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **El Dorado Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Discovery** — 1.4 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Sierra Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 20%)
- **Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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