# Henry M. Gunn High

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/henry-m-gunn-high-palo-alto

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062961004587`
- **School name**: Henry M. Gunn High
- **Location**: Palo Alto, CA 94306
- **Address**: 780 Arastradero Rd.
- **District**: Palo Alto Unified (LEAID `0629610`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.40056, -122.13405
- **Phone**: (650)354-8200
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5618905 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunn_High_School
- **Founded**: 1964

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,643
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 99
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 11.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 75.4% proficient — 395 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 80.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 80.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.5% (cohort of 460)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 487)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 360

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.5% (49 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (3 students) [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)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 9.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.2% — 158 students
- **English Learners**: 2.2% — 38 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 38 students
- **Autism**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $30,704
- **Federal share**: $1,048
- **State + local share**: $29,656
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,713
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,940,717
- **Federal share**: 2.8%
- **State share**: 11.1%
- **Local share**: 86.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $18,242,839

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $160,972
- **Poverty rate**: 15.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 82.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,918
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.5 miles (HEWLETT PACKARD 620 640 PAGE MILL ROAD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 47
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.74 miles (1895 EAST BAYSHORE ROAD)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.31055 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Los Altos High** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)
- **Greendell** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)
- **Palo Alto High** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)
- **Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford** — 3.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)
- **East Palo Alto Academy** — 4.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bullis Charter** — 1.1 mi away, 79.35% (this school: 77.7%)
- **Lucille M. Nixon Elementary** — 1.5 mi away, 78.65% (this school: 77.7%)
- **Herbert Hoover Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 79.1% (this school: 77.7%)
- **Covington Elementary** — 2.5 mi away, 79.9% (this school: 77.7%)
- **Stevenson Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 79% (this school: 77.7%)

### graduation rate
- **East Palo Alto Academy** — 4.3 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Tide Academy** — 6.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Monta Vista High** — 7.3 mi away, 97.8% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Mission Early College High** — 8.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 96.5%)
- **Lynbrook High** — 9.9 mi away, 97.7% (this school: 96.5%)

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