Encore Jr./Sr. High Sch for the Perf and Visual Arts

Set in Hesperia, California, Encore Jr./Sr. High Sch for the Perf and Visual Arts is a small high school, part of Encore Jr./Sr. High Sch for the Perf and Visual Arts DIST. It educates 561 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 33% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Operationally, Encore Jr./Sr. High Sch for the Perf and Visual Arts answers to Encore Jr./Sr. High Sch for the Perf and Visual Arts DIST, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Encore Jr./Sr. High Sch for the Perf and Visual Arts records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 22% White, 19% Black. That composition is broadly in line with San Bernardino County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 18.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Encore Jr./Sr. High Sch for the Perf and Visual Arts is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hesperia Community Day, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. Encore Jr./Sr. High Sch for the Perf and Visual Arts is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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