Pinnacle Online - WMCB

Pinnacle Online - WMCB is a secondary school of minimally staffed scale in TEMPE, Arizona, part of Pinnacle Education-WMCB Inc. (79439), hosting 51 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 92% leaner than the state mean of about 631.

Pinnacle Education-WMCB Inc. (79439) comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 55 students; Pinnacle Online - WMCB is among them.

Demographically, Pinnacle Online - WMCB reports that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 8% White. By comparison, Maricopa County as a whole is about 31% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 2.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.2:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Maricopa County shows median household income runs about $89,300, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pinnacle Online - WMCB is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

The closest other public school is Pinnacle Charter High School-Tempe East, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site. Pinnacle Online - WMCB is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 132%: 22 students in 2018 compared to 51 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 50% to 88% across the same window.

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