# Delta High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/delta-high-santa-maria/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063567006082`
- **School name**: Delta High
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93455
- **Address**: 4893 Bethany Ln.
- **District**: Santa Maria Joint Union High (LEAID `0635670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.86596, -120.43364
- **Phone**: (805)937-6356
- **Website**: http://dhs.smjuhsd.org

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 291
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 78.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 22.4% proficient — 63 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.6% (cohort of 330)
- **2021**: 89.0% (cohort of 380)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 116.7% (434 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.1% (95 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 9.5% (32 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 84.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.6% — 19 students
- **English Learners**: 32.5% — 110 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,356
- **Federal share**: $1,967
- **State + local share**: $15,389
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 338
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,818,349
- **Federal share**: 7.7%
- **State share**: 59.5%
- **Local share**: 32.8%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,491,507

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,734
- **Poverty rate**: 20.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,092
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.3 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.02 miles (NEW CONTINUATION HIGH SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SANTA MARIA UTILITIES DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.33956 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Patterson Road Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 15.3% (this school: 28.11%)
- **Orcutt Junior High** — 0.5 mi away, 19.7% (this school: 28.11%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 12.2% (this school: 28.11%)
- **Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria** — 0.8 mi away, 21.1% (this school: 28.11%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 28.11%)

### ela proficiency
- **Patterson Road Elementary** — 0.2 mi away, 56.85% (this school: 22.4%)
- **Orcutt Junior High** — 0.5 mi away, 49.4% (this school: 22.4%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 69.25% (this school: 22.4%)
- **Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria** — 0.8 mi away, 39.25% (this school: 22.4%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 51.65% (this school: 22.4%)

### graduation rate
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 0.5 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 93.6%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 0.9 mi away, 94.6% (this school: 93.6%)
- **Pioneer Valley High** — 6.6 mi away, 95.5% (this school: 93.6%)
- **Cabrillo High** — 10.9 mi away, 94.6% (this school: 93.6%)
- **Nipomo High** — 13.0 mi away, 93.7% (this school: 93.6%)

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