Alpaugh -Senior High

Set in Alpaugh, California, Alpaugh -Senior High is an one-room-style high school, operated by Alpaugh Unified. It instructs 96 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 89% below the state mean of about 838.

Within Alpaugh Unified, which oversees 2 schools and 345 students, Alpaugh -Senior High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Alpaugh -Senior High records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). Beyond that, the school reports 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the resource side, On paper, Alpaugh -Senior High has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Alpaugh -Senior High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 82% of students at Alpaugh -Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Alpaugh -Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.5%, the actual is 25.0%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Tulare County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Alpaugh -Senior High is one.

California Online Public Schools Central Valley is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alpaugh -Senior High at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 18.3%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alpaugh -Senior High has contracted 21%, going from 121 students in 2018 to 96 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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