# Horizons School: Independent Study

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062637009946`
- **School name**: Horizons School: Independent Study
- **Location**: Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
- **Address**: 1 Santa Barbara Rd.
- **District**: Mt. Diablo Unified (LEAID `0626370`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.93725, -122.06659
- **Phone**: (925)682-8000
- **Website**: https://horizonscis.mdusd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 182
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 17.7% proficient — 130 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 60.3% (cohort of 68)
- **2021**: 74.5% (cohort of 54)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 37.6% (53 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.5% (74 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.7% (8 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**: 39.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 6.5% — 14 students
- **English Learners**: 3.7% — 8 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $1,878
- **Federal share**: $428
- **State + local share**: $1,450
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 216
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,184,551
- **Federal share**: 9.4%
- **State share**: 43.9%
- **Local share**: 46.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,482,173

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $146,316
- **Poverty rate**: 9.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,718
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.6 miles (CONCORD NAVAL WEAPONS STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 10.81 miles (THE ATCHISON)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PINE GROVE MOBILEHOME PARK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 3.94499 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Pleasant Hill Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 18.5% (this school: 37.6%)
- **Prospect High (Continuation)** — 0.0 mi away, 2.67% (this school: 37.6%)
- **Sequoia Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 3% (this school: 37.6%)
- **Sequoia Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 10.7% (this school: 37.6%)
- **Pleasant Hill Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 17.6% (this school: 37.6%)

### ela proficiency
- **Pleasant Hill Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 57.3% (this school: 18.85%)
- **Sequoia Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 59.8% (this school: 18.85%)
- **Sequoia Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 54.6% (this school: 18.85%)
- **Pleasant Hill Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 58.8% (this school: 18.85%)
- **Fair Oaks Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 28.3% (this school: 18.85%)

### graduation rate
- **Prospect High (Continuation)** — 0.0 mi away, 75.4% (this school: 60.3%)
- **College Park High** — 1.9 mi away, 98.2% (this school: 60.3%)
- **Ygnacio Valley High** — 2.2 mi away, 89.7% (this school: 60.3%)
- **Contra Costa School of Performing Arts** — 2.3 mi away, 87.5% (this school: 60.3%)
- **Acalanes High** — 2.8 mi away, 95.3% (this school: 60.3%)

### math proficiency
- **Pleasant Hill Middle** — 0.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Pleasant Hill Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Strandwood Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Gregory Gardens Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Cambridge Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)

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