Pinnacle Charter High School

As a micro-enrollment high school in NOGALES, Arizona, Pinnacle Charter High School hosts 52 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Pinnacle Education-Kino Inc. (81009). Compared to the state average of about 631 students per school, that is 92% smaller than typical.

Pinnacle Charter High School sits inside Pinnacle Education-Kino Inc. (81009), the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pinnacle Charter High School logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

In terms of school funding signals, Pinnacle Charter High School reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 2.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.2:1 average.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Santa Cruz County put median household income runs about $55,217, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Pinnacle Charter High School is one of 31 public schools in Santa Cruz County (combined enrollment of about 10,432 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mexicayotl Charter School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a town-based site. Pinnacle Charter High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 64%: 144 students in 2018 compared to 52 in 2025.

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