# Whitney (Gretchen) High

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/whitney-gretchen-high-cerritos

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060162000029`
- **School name**: Whitney (Gretchen) High
- **Location**: Cerritos, CA 90703
- **Address**: 16800 Shoemaker Ave.
- **District**: ABC Unified (LEAID `0601620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.87800, -118.05440
- **Phone**: (562)229-7745
- **Website**: https://www.whitneyhs.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7996697 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_High_School_(Cerritos,_California)
- **Founded**: 1976

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,024
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 31.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Blue
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Blue
  - college_career: Blue
  - ela: Blue
  - chronic_absent: Orange
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 90.8% proficient — 502 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 99.4% (cohort of 164)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 168)

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 2.7% (9 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (10 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**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.3%
- **Black/African American**: 76.0%
- **Asian**: 2.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 4.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 2.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 32.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 1.0% — 10 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,454
- **Federal share**: $1,529
- **State + local share**: $14,925
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,018
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,956,800
- **Federal share**: 9.7%
- **State share**: 68.2%
- **Local share**: 22.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,513,526

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $173,063
- **Poverty rate**: 5.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 67.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,221
- **Foreign-born residents**: 48.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 7
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 133
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.01 miles (OAK STREET PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CERRITOS - CITY, WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Tracy (Wilbur) High (Continuation)** — 1.0 mi away, 0.93% (this school: 2.7%)
- **ABC Secondary (Alternative)** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.7%)
- **Cerritos High** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.7%)
- **Cerritos Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 2.2% (this school: 2.7%)
- **Gahr (Richard) High** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.7%)

### graduation rate
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 5.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)
- **Compton Early College High** — 10.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)
- **Magnolia Science Academy Santa Ana** — 12.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)
- **University Pathways Medical Magnet Academy** — 12.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)
- **Alliance Judy Ivie Burton Technology Academy High** — 13.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 99.4%)

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