# North Star Academy

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-star-academy-sutter-creek/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/north-star-academy-sutter-creek

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060245006975`
- **School name**: North Star Academy
- **Location**: Sutter Creek, CA 95685
- **Address**: 525 Independence Dr.
- **District**: Amador County Unified (LEAID `0602450`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 38.37750, -120.80900
- **Phone**: (209)257-7773

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 44
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 3
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.4%

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 86.2% (cohort of 29)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 49)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 77.3% (51 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [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**: 6.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 59.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.2% — 8 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,529
- **Federal share**: $825
- **State + local share**: $20,704
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 44
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,579,432
- **Federal share**: 17.5%
- **State share**: 26.6%
- **Local share**: 55.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,888,695

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $72,669
- **Poverty rate**: 7.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.8%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,249
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.1 miles (ARGONAUT MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.71 miles (CENTRAL EUREKA MINE PROJECT CITY OF SUTTER CREEK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: AWA BUCKHORN PLANT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.52484 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **Amador High** — 1.4 mi away, 97.3% (this school: 86.2%)
- **Argonaut High** — 1.7 mi away, 94.9% (this school: 86.2%)
- **Calaveras Unified Alternative-Sierra Hills Education Center** — 14.0 mi away, 97.9% (this school: 86.2%)
- **Calaveras High** — 14.0 mi away, 92.6% (this school: 86.2%)
- **Mountain Oaks** — 14.5 mi away, 94.7% (this school: 86.2%)

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