# West High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954002356`
- **School name**: West High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93309
- **Address**: 1200 New Stine Rd.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.34321, -119.05980
- **Phone**: (661)832-2822
- **Website**: http://west.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7985357 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_High_School_(Bakersfield,_California)
- **Founded**: 1965

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,159
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 78
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 91.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 42.2% proficient — 366 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 83.1% (cohort of 474)
- **2021**: 84.0% (cohort of 419)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 5

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 26.5% (533 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (22 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 72.3%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 13.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 9.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 92.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.2% — 318 students
- **English Learners**: 8.1% — 169 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 161 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 19 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,039
- **Federal share**: $2,144
- **State + local share**: $15,895
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,090
### 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**: $59,049
- **Poverty rate**: 20.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.3%
- **Unemployment**: 10.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,181
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 33.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.5 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 25
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.11 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**: 12.9442 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Kern Workforce 2000 Academy** — 0.3 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 0.67%)
- **South High** — 2.9 mi away, 0.6% (this school: 0.67%)
- **Stockdale High** — 3.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.67%)
- **Liberty High** — 4.2 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.67%)
- **Centennial High** — 4.4 mi away, 0.09% (this school: 0.67%)

### ela proficiency
- **Quailwood Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 58.1% (this school: 54.1%)
- **Stockdale Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 66.7% (this school: 54.1%)
- **Christa McAuliffe Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 55.8% (this school: 54.1%)
- **Tevis Junior High** — 2.7 mi away, 57.55% (this school: 54.1%)
- **Leo B. Hart Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 58.8% (this school: 54.1%)

### graduation rate
- **South High** — 2.9 mi away, 90.3% (this school: 83.1%)
- **Stockdale High** — 3.9 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 83.1%)
- **Valley Oaks Charter** — 4.0 mi away, 89.7% (this school: 83.1%)
- **Liberty High** — 4.2 mi away, 95.4% (this school: 83.1%)
- **Centennial High** — 4.4 mi away, 91.1% (this school: 83.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Evergreen Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Quailwood Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Stockdale Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Leo B. Hart Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **South High** — 2.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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