# Somerset High

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060444000408`
- **School name**: Somerset High
- **Location**: Bellflower, CA 90706
- **Address**: 9242 East Laurel St.
- **District**: Bellflower Unified (LEAID `0604440`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.88245, -118.13674
- **Phone**: (562)804-6548
- **Website**: https://www.busd.k12.ca.us/somerset
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7559871 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_High_School_(Bellflower,_California)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 104
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 12
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 87.5%

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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 65.4% (cohort of 107)
- **2021**: 57.0% (cohort of 126)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 119.0% (144 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.0% (9 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 76.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 11.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.0% — 17 students
- **English Learners**: 23.0% — 26 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,734
- **Federal share**: $2,431
- **State + local share**: $34,303
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 113
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,686,222
- **Federal share**: 14.4%
- **State share**: 70.8%
- **Local share**: 14.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,276,042

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $100,833
- **Poverty rate**: 6.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,126
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 23.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.0 miles (SOUTHERN AVENUE INDUSTRIAL AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 120
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.68 miles (CAF CAMELLIA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BELLFLOWER - SOMERSET MWC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2020-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.6589 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Bellflower Alternative Education Center** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.54%)
- **Paramount High** — 1.6 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 3.54%)
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.54%)
- **Gahr (Richard) High** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.54%)
- **Manuel Dominguez High** — 2.7 mi away, 0.25% (this school: 3.54%)

### graduation rate
- **Las Flores Home Education Independent Study Academy** — 1.1 mi away, 90.9% (this school: 65.4%)
- **Bellflower High** — 1.5 mi away, 93.8% (this school: 65.4%)
- **Paramount High** — 1.6 mi away, 94% (this school: 65.4%)
- **Mayfair High** — 1.7 mi away, 94.8% (this school: 65.4%)
- **Buena Vista High** — 1.8 mi away, 68.6% (this school: 65.4%)

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