# Arcata High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060303000238`
- **School name**: Arcata High
- **Location**: Arcata, CA 95521
- **Address**: 1720 M St.
- **District**: Northern Humboldt Union High (LEAID `0603030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.87642, -124.08907
- **Phone**: (707)825-2400
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4785251 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcata_High_School
- **Founded**: 1894

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,007
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 52
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 57.0% proficient — 245 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 52.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 88.1% (cohort of 226)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 195)

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.7% (44 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (6 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 3.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.6%
- **Black/African American**: 2.4%
- **Asian**: 1.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 70.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 7.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.3% — 134 students
- **English Learners**: 1.4% — 14 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 59 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 33 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,047
- **Federal share**: $4,327
- **State + local share**: $14,720
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,011
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,192,042
- **Federal share**: 10.9%
- **State share**: 45.8%
- **Local share**: 43.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,244,521

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,610
- **Poverty rate**: 24.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 44.5%
- **Unemployment**: 17.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,316
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.5 miles (COPPER BLUFF MINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.26 miles (M STREET PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ARCATA, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.53802 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Six Rivers Charter High** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.4%)
- **Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.4%)
- **Mad River High (Continuation)** — 5.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.4%)
- **Humboldt County Office of Education Juvenile Hall Court** — 6.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.4%)
- **Alder Grove Charter School 2** — 6.7 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 0.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Six Rivers Charter High** — 0.0 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 54.5%)
- **Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy** — 0.5 mi away, 71.05% (this school: 54.5%)
- **Union Street Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 75% (this school: 54.5%)
- **Jacoby Creek** — 2.3 mi away, 71.25% (this school: 54.5%)
- **Redwood Coast Montessori** — 4.7 mi away, 60.95% (this school: 54.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Pacific Coast High (Continuation)** — 0.0 mi away, 96% (this school: 88.1%)
- **McKinleyville High** — 5.5 mi away, 93.2% (this school: 88.1%)
- **Mad River High (Continuation)** — 5.5 mi away, 91.4% (this school: 88.1%)
- **Alder Grove Charter School 2** — 6.7 mi away, 91.1% (this school: 88.1%)
- **Eureka Senior High** — 7.0 mi away, 92% (this school: 88.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Union Street Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Jacoby Creek** — 2.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Lafayette Elementary** — 6.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **Freshwater Charter Middle** — 6.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Academy of the Redwoods** — 13.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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