El Capitan Middle School And Mckinley Elementary School Complex

How does El Capitan Middle School And Mckinley Elementary School Complex compare with other K-12 school buildings in California?

The latest disclosures cover 2,128 K-12 school buildings in California, out of 40,029 buildings citywide. El Capitan Middle School And Mckinley Elementary School Complex's ENERGY STAR score of 96 compares with an average of 74 across the 2,016 that report a score; it scores higher than 81% of them and lower than 16%. Its site EUI of 34.0 kBtu/ft² is roughly in line with the average of 34.6 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 1.5 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 27% below the group average of 2.0 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 126,622 sq ft, it is roughly in line with the average floor area of 129,123 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1960, 16 years earlier than the group's average year built (1976). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 6,548 K-12 school buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 64 and a site EUI of 52.7 kBtu/ft².

How has El Capitan Middle School And Mckinley Elementary School Complex's energy performance changed over time?

BuildingCensus holds 3 California disclosures for El Capitan Middle School And Mckinley Elementary School Complex, covering report years 2022–2024. Its ENERGY STAR score went from 66 in 2022 to 96 in 2024 (+30 points). Site EUI moved from 40.7 kBtu/ft² (2023) to 34.0 kBtu/ft² (2024), a 16% decrease. Reported emissions went from 160 tCO₂e to 186 tCO₂e over the same span (up 16%).

What does an ENERGY STAR score of 96 mean?

ENERGY STAR scores run from 1 to 100 and are computed by the EPA's Portfolio Manager as a percentile against similar buildings nationwide, adjusted for climate, size and use: a score of 96 means the building performs better than about 96% of its national peers. BuildingCensus bands the score into report-card grades; 96 falls in band A — high performer (85–100). Scores of 75 or higher meet the threshold for ENERGY STAR certification; certification itself is a separate, verified application that the disclosure does not record. In California, 65% of scored buildings are at 75 or above.

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. El Capitan Middle School And Mckinley Elementary School Complex's 34.0 kBtu/ft² across 126,622 sq ft works out to about 4.3 billion Btu (1,262 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. The disclosure also reports 574,035 kWh of electricity and 10,587 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires El Capitan Middle School And Mckinley Elementary School Complex to report its energy use?

El Capitan Middle School And Mckinley Elementary School Complex reports under AB 802 (Public Resources Code §25402.10), the legal basis of California's Building Energy Benchmarking Program (statewide), which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2024 disclosure (source record california:23992592:2024). AB 802 requires every California commercial building over 50,000 sq ft to report energy use to the CEC annually; the CEC publicly discloses the results statewide.