# Independence High

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062160008457`
- **School name**: Independence High
- **Location**: Brentwood, CA 94513
- **Address**: 929 Second St.
- **District**: Liberty Union High (LEAID `0621600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.93578, -121.69723
- **Phone**: (925)634-2589
- **Website**: https://www.luhsd.net/independence

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 163
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 13
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 27.6%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 43.6% proficient — 45 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 74.7% (cohort of 99)
- **2021**: 62.0% (cohort of 116)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 1

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 97.2% (174 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.5% (6 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**: 29.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.1% — 17 students
- **English Learners**: 2.4% — 4 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,936
- **Federal share**: $1,422
- **State + local share**: $20,514
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 169
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,513,855
- **Federal share**: 5.8%
- **State share**: 42.0%
- **Local share**: 52.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,255,060

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $129,222
- **Poverty rate**: 11.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.2%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,070
- **Foreign-born residents**: 23.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.1 miles (LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATL LAB MAIN SITE USDOE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.74 miles (PROPOSED FOURTH MIDDLE SCHOOL SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BRENTWOOD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.27219 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 17.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Liberty High** — 0.2 mi away, 0.22% (this school: 1.78%)
- **Freedom High** — 2.6 mi away, 0.28% (this school: 1.78%)
- **Heritage High** — 3.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.78%)
- **Dozier-Libbey Medical High** — 4.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.78%)
- **Deer Valley High** — 4.7 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 1.78%)

### ela proficiency
- **Liberty High** — 0.2 mi away, 57% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Edna Hill Middle** — 0.5 mi away, 49.55% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Garin Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 59.75% (this school: 43.6%)
- **Mary Casey Black Elementary** — 1.0 mi away, 47.65% (this school: 43.6%)
- **William B. Bristow Middle** — 1.0 mi away, 50.1% (this school: 43.6%)

### graduation rate
- **Liberty High** — 0.2 mi away, 96.4% (this school: 74.7%)
- **Freedom High** — 2.6 mi away, 97.5% (this school: 74.7%)
- **Heritage High** — 3.3 mi away, 97.6% (this school: 74.7%)
- **Dozier-Libbey Medical High** — 4.0 mi away, 96.8% (this school: 74.7%)
- **Deer Valley High** — 4.7 mi away, 89.9% (this school: 74.7%)

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