# Independence High

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061182001302`
- **School name**: Independence High
- **Location**: San Jose, CA 95133
- **Address**: 1776 Educational Park Dr.
- **District**: East Side Union High (LEAID `0611820`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.36883, -121.85739
- **Phone**: (408)928-9500
- **Website**: http://independence.esuhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q12060715 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_High_School_(San_Jose,_California)
- **Founded**: 1976

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,289
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 103
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.0%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.4% proficient — 529 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 83.5% (cohort of 620)
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 714)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 491

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.9% (278 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (13 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 35.0%
- **Black/African American**: 56.0%
- **Asian**: 2.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 3.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.3%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 246 students
- **English Learners**: 22.0% — 522 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 182 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 37 students
- **Autism**: 34 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Deaf-Blindness**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,397
- **Federal share**: $1,065
- **State + local share**: $17,332
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,368
### 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**: $101,410
- **Poverty rate**: 12.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 35.6%
- **Unemployment**: 8.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,679
- **Foreign-born residents**: 48.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.5 miles (LORENTZ BARREL DRUM CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 169
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.92 miles (SAN JOSE FAMILY SHELTER)

### 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**: 2.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ACE Charter High** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.51%)
- **Pegasus High** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.51%)
- **Lrng in an Urban Comm with High Achievement (L.U.C.H.A.)** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.51%)
- **James Lick High** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.51%)
- **Piedmont Hills High** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.51%)

### ela proficiency
- **KIPP San Jose Collegiate** — 0.1 mi away, 67.25% (this school: 42.4%)
- **Summerdale Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 45.75% (this school: 42.4%)
- **Piedmont Middle** — 1.8 mi away, 54.5% (this school: 42.4%)
- **Noble Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 70.65% (this school: 42.4%)
- **Ruskin Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 52.25% (this school: 42.4%)

### graduation rate
- **KIPP San Jose Collegiate** — 0.1 mi away, 99.2% (this school: 83.5%)
- **Downtown College Prep - Alum Rock** — 0.1 mi away, 85.2% (this school: 83.5%)
- **San Jose High** — 1.5 mi away, 88.8% (this school: 83.5%)
- **Piedmont Hills High** — 2.4 mi away, 94.3% (this school: 83.5%)
- **Latino College Preparatory Academy** — 2.4 mi away, 99% (this school: 83.5%)

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