# Pioneer High

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `064248006953`
- **School name**: Pioneer High
- **Location**: Whittier, CA 90606
- **Address**: 10800 Ben Avon
- **District**: Whittier Union High (LEAID `0642480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.97071, -118.07923
- **Phone**: (562)698-8121
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7196699 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_High_School_(Los_Angeles_County,_California)
- **Founded**: 1959

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,000
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 59.5% proficient — 239 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 98.1% (cohort of 268)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 297)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 2

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (43 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.5% (38 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**: 89.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.7% — 265 students
- **English Learners**: 16.1% — 173 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 160 students
- **Autism**: 36 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 18 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,474
- **Federal share**: $958
- **State + local share**: $24,516
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,072
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,781,458
- **Federal share**: 10.5%
- **State share**: 61.9%
- **Local share**: 27.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,940,415

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,126
- **Poverty rate**: 16.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,135
- **Foreign-born residents**: 26.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 27.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.0 miles (WASTE DISPOSAL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 176
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.24 miles (BEAUMONT TRUST PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WHITTIER-CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6107 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Katherine Edwards Mid Sch STEAM & Dual Immersion Acad** — 1.1 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 1.03%)
- **El Rancho High** — 1.1 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 1.03%)
- **Ruben Salazar Continuation** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.03%)
- **Orange Grove Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.03%)
- **Whittier High** — 2.1 mi away, 0.82% (this school: 1.03%)

### ela proficiency
- **Unsworth (Edith) Elementary** — 1.9 mi away, 59.95% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Santa Fe High** — 2.2 mi away, 61.2% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Lake Center Middle** — 2.2 mi away, 59.95% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Downey High** — 3.4 mi away, 63% (this school: 59.5%)
- **Ocean View Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 61% (this school: 59.5%)

### graduation rate
- **La Serna High** — 4.8 mi away, 98.8% (this school: 98.1%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 6.6 mi away, 99.4% (this school: 98.1%)
- **Glen A. Wilson High** — 7.8 mi away, 99.1% (this school: 98.1%)
- **Aspire Ollin University Preparatory Academy** — 8.5 mi away, 98.7% (this school: 98.1%)
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 8.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 98.1%)

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