# Acalanes Center for Independent Study

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060165010751`
- **School name**: Acalanes Center for Independent Study
- **Location**: Walnut Creek, CA 94595
- **Address**: 1963 Tice Valley Blvd.
- **District**: Acalanes Union High (LEAID `0601650`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.87702, -122.07610
- **Phone**: (925)280-3945
- **Website**: https://www.acalanes.k12.ca.us/cis

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 61
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 6
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 16.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 54.6% proficient — 20 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 88.0% (cohort of 25)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 24)

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 29.6% (13 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**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.4%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 78.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 23.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 29.4% — 15 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $39,678
- **Federal share**: $811
- **State + local share**: $38,867
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 51
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,404,318
- **Federal share**: 4.7%
- **State share**: 14.9%
- **Local share**: 80.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,178,192

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,306
- **Poverty rate**: 3.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 69.0%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,458
- **Foreign-born residents**: 20.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.6 miles (CONCORD NAVAL WEAPONS STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.81 miles (REDWOOD HILL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CASA MEDANOS WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 3.94499 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Parkmead Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 60.3%)
- **Tice Creek** — 0.9 mi away, 73.75% (this school: 60.3%)
- **Burton Valley Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 75% (this school: 60.3%)
- **Las Lomas High** — 1.5 mi away, 74.25% (this school: 60.3%)
- **Murwood Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 60.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Las Lomas High** — 1.5 mi away, 97.9% (this school: 88%)
- **Acalanes High** — 2.2 mi away, 95.3% (this school: 88%)
- **Campolindo High** — 2.8 mi away, 98.8% (this school: 88%)
- **Northgate High** — 4.3 mi away, 97.1% (this school: 88%)
- **Miramonte High** — 4.5 mi away, 98.6% (this school: 88%)

### math proficiency
- **Parkmead Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Tice Creek** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Burton Valley Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Las Lomas High** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Murwood Elementary** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/acalanes-center-for-independent-study-walnut-creek/workforce

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