# Shery (Kurt T.) High (Continuation)

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063942006572`
- **School name**: Shery (Kurt T.) High (Continuation)
- **Location**: Torrance, CA 90501
- **Address**: 2600 Vine St.
- **District**: Torrance Unified (LEAID `0639420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.82310, -118.32390
- **Phone**: (310)533-4440

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 119
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 7
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 73.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 28.0% proficient — 25 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 20.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 20.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 66.0% (cohort of 47)
- **2021**: 54.5% (cohort of 47)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 100.8% (125 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.6% (4 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**: 61.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.3% — 19 students
- **English Learners**: 22.7% — 25 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,471
- **Federal share**: $230
- **State + local share**: $31,241
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 110
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,192,478
- **Federal share**: 9.8%
- **State share**: 52.3%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,520,994

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $132,986
- **Poverty rate**: 5.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 55.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,366
- **Foreign-born residents**: 37.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (MONTROSE CHEMICAL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 145
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.34 miles (DEL AMO)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Torrance Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 57.5% (this school: 24%)
- **Torrance High** — 0.5 mi away, 66.6% (this school: 24%)
- **J. H. Hull Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 41.45% (this school: 24%)
- **Hickory Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 64.1% (this school: 24%)
- **Howard Wood Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 24%)

### graduation rate
- **Torrance High** — 0.5 mi away, 99% (this school: 66%)
- **Nathaniel Narbonne Senior High** — 1.7 mi away, 91.2% (this school: 66%)
- **Humanities and Arts (HARTS) Academy of Los Angeles** — 1.7 mi away, 96.3% (this school: 66%)
- **South High** — 2.4 mi away, 93.6% (this school: 66%)
- **Eagle Tree Continuation** — 2.8 mi away, 80.6% (this school: 66%)

### math proficiency
- **Torrance Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Torrance High** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **J. H. Hull Middle** — 0.7 mi away, 52% (this school: 20%)
- **Hickory Elementary** — 0.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)
- **Howard Wood Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 20%)

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