# Taft Union High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063873006511`
- **School name**: Taft Union High
- **Location**: Taft, CA 93268
- **Address**: 701 Wildcat Way
- **District**: Taft Union High (LEAID `0638730`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.14634, -119.46052
- **Phone**: (661)763-2300
- **Website**: https://www.taftunion.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7675052 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Union_High_School
- **Founded**: 1912

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,064
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 58
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 81.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 47.3% proficient — 218 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 90.2% (cohort of 245)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 190)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 3

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 49.8% (509 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (7 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**: 81.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 131 students
- **English Learners**: 14.0% — 146 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 49 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 20 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,341
- **Federal share**: $1,855
- **State + local share**: $24,486
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,045
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,003,512
- **Federal share**: 9.6%
- **State share**: 56.4%
- **Local share**: 33.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $11,894,644

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,906
- **Poverty rate**: 18.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 10.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $995
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 29.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 36.3 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 28.60 miles (BAKERSFIELD ARC)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WEST KERN WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Heartland Charter** — 7.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)
- **Blue Ridge Academy** — 7.1 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 1.05%)
- **Maricopa High** — 7.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)

### ela proficiency
- **Midway Elementary** — 5.0 mi away, 60.4% (this school: 49.65%)

### graduation rate
- **Heartland Charter** — 7.1 mi away, 92.8% (this school: 90.2%)
- **Blue Ridge Academy** — 7.1 mi away, 92.3% (this school: 90.2%)

### math proficiency
- **Lincoln Junior High** — 0.2 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Taft Primary** — 0.5 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Conley Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Midway Elementary** — 5.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Heartland Charter** — 7.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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