# Vista Continuation High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954002355`
- **School name**: Vista Continuation High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93304
- **Address**: 200 P St.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.35771, -119.00928
- **Phone**: (661)327-8561
- **Website**: http://vista.kernhigh.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 221
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 28.6% proficient — 48 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 72.9% (cohort of 155)
- **2021**: 42.0% (cohort of 143)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 78.8% (134 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.1% (17 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 69.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.5%
- **Asian**: 14.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 11.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 96.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.1% — 17 students
- **English Learners**: 11.4% — 24 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,241
- **Federal share**: $2,065
- **State + local share**: $28,176
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 210
### 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**: $14,821
- **Poverty rate**: 71.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 4.9%
- **Unemployment**: 13.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,109
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 64.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.0 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 32
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.21 miles (624 4TH STREET)

### 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**: 13.0743 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Bakersfield High** — 1.1 mi away, 1.12% (this school: 4.29%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 1.6% (this school: 4.29%)
- **South High** — 2.4 mi away, 0.6% (this school: 4.29%)
- **Tierra Del Sol Continuation High** — 2.8 mi away, 2.71% (this school: 4.29%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 2.9 mi away, 1.28% (this school: 4.29%)

### ela proficiency
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 47.25% (this school: 24.3%)
- **Emerson Middle** — 0.2 mi away, 26% (this school: 24.3%)
- **Fremont Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 34% (this school: 24.3%)
- **Sequoia Jr. High** — 0.7 mi away, 34.6% (this school: 24.3%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 37.9% (this school: 24.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Bakersfield High** — 1.1 mi away, 81.6% (this school: 72.9%)
- **South High** — 2.4 mi away, 90.3% (this school: 72.9%)
- **Valley Oaks Charter** — 2.4 mi away, 89.7% (this school: 72.9%)
- **Tierra Del Sol Continuation High** — 2.8 mi away, 75.1% (this school: 72.9%)
- **East Bakersfield High** — 2.9 mi away, 84% (this school: 72.9%)

### math proficiency
- **McKinley Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Roosevelt Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Bessie E. Owens Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Bakersfield High** — 1.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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