# Independence High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independence-high-bakersfield/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/independence-high-bakersfield

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954012132`
- **School name**: Independence High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93311
- **Address**: 8001 Old River Rd.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.28274, -119.11116
- **Phone**: (661)834-8001
- **Website**: http://independence.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6016070 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_High_School_(Bakersfield,_California)
- **Founded**: 2008

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,324
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 89
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 56.0% proficient — 482 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 92.8% (cohort of 596)
- **2021**: 94.0% (cohort of 498)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 12

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.7% (153 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.1% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 60.9%
- **Black/African American**: 7.8%
- **Asian**: 8.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 19.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 1.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.4% — 314 students
- **English Learners**: 3.1% — 72 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 126 students
- **Autism**: 43 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,995
- **Federal share**: $1,765
- **State + local share**: $16,230
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,334
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,038,145
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,976,157

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $138,719
- **Poverty rate**: 0.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.9%
- **Unemployment**: 1.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,232
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.2 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.74 miles (BAKERSFIELD ARC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAKERSFIELD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.9442 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Ridgeview High** — 3.0 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.09%)
- **Stockdale High** — 3.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.09%)
- **Liberty High** — 5.9 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.09%)
- **Frontier High** — 9.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.09%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 11.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.09%)

### ela proficiency
- **Buena Vista Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 59.6% (this school: 47%)
- **Earl Warren Junior High** — 2.2 mi away, 70.4% (this school: 47%)
- **Old River Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 52.4% (this school: 47%)
- **Douglas J. Miller Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 49.1% (this school: 47%)
- **Tevis Junior High** — 2.8 mi away, 57.55% (this school: 47%)

### graduation rate
- **Stockdale High** — 3.1 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 92.8%)
- **Liberty High** — 5.9 mi away, 95.4% (this school: 92.8%)
- **Frontier High** — 9.6 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 92.8%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 11.6 mi away, 93.3% (this school: 92.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Earl Warren Junior High** — 2.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Old River Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Douglas J. Miller Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Stockdale High** — 3.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Panama Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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