# Kern Valley High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/kern-valley-high-lake-isabella/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/kern-valley-high-lake-isabella

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954002347`
- **School name**: Kern Valley High
- **Location**: Lake Isabella, CA 93240
- **Address**: 3340 Erskine Creek Rd.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.60778, -118.46497
- **Phone**: (760)379-2611
- **Website**: http://kernvalley.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6394160 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern_Valley_High_School
- **Founded**: 1941

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 516
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Red
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: 0
  - math: Red
  - college_career: Orange
  - ela: Orange
  - graduation: Red

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.1% proficient — 107 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 72.7% (cohort of 121)
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 103)

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.4% (137 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (21 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)
- **White**: 2.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 71.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.3% — 79 students
- **English Learners**: 0.4% — 2 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,792
- **Federal share**: $3,004
- **State + local share**: $24,788
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 484
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,038,145
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,976,157

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $26,550
- **Poverty rate**: 45.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.2%
- **Unemployment**: 12.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,133
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 50.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 34.4 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 32.34 miles (2421 HALEY STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KERN VALLEY MUTUAL WATER COMPANY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Kernville Elementary** — 10.7 mi away, 42.25% (this school: 41.55%)

### math proficiency
- **Woodrow W. Wallace Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **Kernville Elementary** — 10.7 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)
- **South Fork Elementary** — 11.0 mi away, 38% (this school: 20%)

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