# Pioneer Valley High

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063567011438`
- **School name**: Pioneer Valley High
- **Location**: Santa Maria, CA 93454
- **Address**: 675 Panther Dr.
- **District**: Santa Maria Joint Union High (LEAID `0635670`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.95785, -120.40203
- **Phone**: (805)922-1305
- **Website**: http://pvhs.smjuhsd.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7196820 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Valley_High_School
- **Founded**: 2004

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 3,080
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 139
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 48.6% proficient — 688 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 38.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 95.5% (cohort of 711)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 553)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 4

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.3% (99 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (52 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**: 77.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.4% — 293 students
- **English Learners**: 14.8% — 461 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 125 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 33 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,176
- **Federal share**: $1,641
- **State + local share**: $14,535
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 3,112
### 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**: $94,450
- **Poverty rate**: 10.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.2%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,027
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.4 miles (CASMALIA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.94 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**: 5.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Jimenez Roberto and Dr. Francisco Elementary** — 3.6 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 0.9%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 5.2 mi away, 0.74% (this school: 0.9%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 6.4 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 0.9%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 8.0 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 0.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **Trivium Charter** — 2.1 mi away, 49.2% (this school: 43.3%)
- **Bill Libbon Elementary** — 2.4 mi away, 44.05% (this school: 43.3%)
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 4.4 mi away, 67.45% (this school: 43.3%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 5.2 mi away, 61% (this school: 43.3%)
- **Family Partnership Charter** — 6.4 mi away, 51.65% (this school: 43.3%)

### graduation rate
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 7.0 mi away, 98.4% (this school: 95.5%)
- **Central Coast New Tech High** — 8.0 mi away, 98.2% (this school: 95.5%)
- **Pacific View Academy** — 13.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 95.5%)
- **Arroyo Grande High** — 14.8 mi away, 95.6% (this school: 95.5%)

### math proficiency
- **Joe Nightingale Elementary** — 4.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Ernest Righetti High** — 5.2 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Patterson Road Elementary** — 6.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Orcutt Junior High** — 7.0 mi away, 52% (this school: 38%)
- **Orcutt Academy Charter** — 7.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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