Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation)

As a tiny secondary school in Arbuckle, California, Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation) educates 10 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Pierce Joint Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 99% leaner than the state mean of about 838.

Pierce Joint Unified comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,447 students; Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation) is among them.

Demographically, Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation) reports that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 10% White. By comparison, Colusa County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation) has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Colusa County runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Colusa County indicate median household income runs about $75,672, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Colusa County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,732 students), Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation) is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pierce High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation).

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 10 students in 2018 compared to 10 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 90% across the same window.

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