# Thomas Downey High

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `062515003753`
- **School name**: Thomas Downey High
- **Location**: Modesto, CA 95355
- **Address**: 1000 Coffee Rd.
- **District**: Modesto City High (LEAID `0625150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 37.65760, -120.97440
- **Phone**: (209)574-1685
- **Website**: https://downey.mcs4kids.com
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7789043 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Downey_High_School
- **Founded**: 1951

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,192
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 91
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.0%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 45.9% proficient — 455 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 92.8% (cohort of 472)
- **2021**: 87.0% (cohort of 488)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 5

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.7% (294 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (30 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**: 72.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 321 students
- **English Learners**: 16.3% — 335 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 176 students
- **Autism**: 33 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 22 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,656
- **Federal share**: $2,735
- **State + local share**: $16,921
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,055
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,036
- **Poverty rate**: 12.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,217
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.2 miles (MODESTO GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 43
- **Nearest brownfield**: 14.86 miles (PROPOSED SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ALTERNATIVE EDUCATI)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MODESTO, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.09227 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Connecting Waters Charter School - Central Valley** — 1.3 mi away, 0.2% (this school: 0.58%)
- **Fred C. Beyer High** — 2.3 mi away, 0.19% (this school: 0.58%)
- **Grace M. Davis High** — 2.5 mi away, 0.35% (this school: 0.58%)
- **Modesto High** — 2.6 mi away, 0.33% (this school: 0.58%)
- **Peter Johansen High** — 3.1 mi away, 0.3% (this school: 0.58%)

### ela proficiency
- **Enslen Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 67.75% (this school: 55.95%)
- **Lakewood Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 59% (this school: 55.95%)
- **Elizabeth Ustach Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 57.25% (this school: 55.95%)
- **James C. Enochs High** — 3.2 mi away, 63.9% (this school: 55.95%)
- **Agnes M. Baptist Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 57.85% (this school: 55.95%)

### graduation rate
- **Aspire Vanguard College Preparatory Academy** — 3.1 mi away, 95.5% (this school: 92.8%)
- **James C. Enochs High** — 3.2 mi away, 98.5% (this school: 92.8%)
- **Ceres High** — 4.4 mi away, 94.2% (this school: 92.8%)
- **Endeavor Alternative** — 4.9 mi away, 96.6% (this school: 92.8%)
- **Hart-Ransom Charter** — 5.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 92.8%)

### math proficiency
- **Enslen Elementary** — 1.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Elizabeth Ustach Middle** — 2.3 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Agnes M. Baptist Elementary** — 3.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Stanislaus Elementary** — 4.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Paradise Elementary** — 5.0 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

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