# Rio Mesa High

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rio-mesa-high-oxnard

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062927004521`
- **School name**: Rio Mesa High
- **Location**: Oxnard, CA 93030
- **Address**: 545 Central Ave.
- **District**: Oxnard Union High (LEAID `0629270`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 34.25370, -119.14460
- **Phone**: (805)278-5500
- **Website**: https://www.riomesahigh.us
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7335277 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Mesa_High_School
- **Founded**: 1965

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,951
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 84
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.6% proficient — 464 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 38.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 92.4% (cohort of 540)
- **2021**: 85.0% (cohort of 466)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 6

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 10.4% (247 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (29 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.2% (66 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**: 65.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.8% — 391 students
- **English Learners**: 20.1% — 417 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 110 students
- **Autism**: 52 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 49 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 29 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,078
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,244,740
- **Federal share**: 11.5%
- **State share**: 52.6%
- **Local share**: 36.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,444,349

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $180,357
- **Poverty rate**: 6.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 37.7%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,277
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.2 miles (HALACO ENGINEERING COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.21 miles (PROPOSED BELL RANCH SOMIS UNION SCHOOL)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.15532 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Providence** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.4%)
- **Buena High** — 4.4 mi away, 1.13% (this school: 1.4%)
- **Oxnard High** — 4.7 mi away, 1.16% (this school: 1.4%)
- **Foothill Technology High** — 5.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.4%)
- **El Camino High** — 5.0 mi away, 1.38% (this school: 1.4%)

### ela proficiency
- **Academy of Technology & Leadership at Saticoy** — 2.3 mi away, 64.8% (this school: 55.8%)
- **Norman R. Brekke Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 65.55% (this school: 55.8%)
- **Mound Elementary** — 3.9 mi away, 62.85% (this school: 55.8%)
- **Balboa Middle** — 4.0 mi away, 56% (this school: 55.8%)
- **Las Posas Elementary** — 4.7 mi away, 60.05% (this school: 55.8%)

### graduation rate
- **Oxnard High** — 4.7 mi away, 94% (this school: 92.4%)
- **Foothill Technology High** — 5.0 mi away, 99.6% (this school: 92.4%)
- **El Camino High** — 5.0 mi away, 98.9% (this school: 92.4%)
- **Channel Islands High** — 5.8 mi away, 94.4% (this school: 92.4%)
- **Oxnard Middle College High** — 6.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 92.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Rio del Sol** — 2.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Citrus Glen Elementary** — 2.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Academy of Technology & Leadership at Saticoy** — 2.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Norman R. Brekke Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)
- **Juanamaria Elementary** — 3.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 38%)

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