Everest Public High

Set in Redwood City, California, Everest Public High is a very small 9-12 campus, run under Everest Public High District. It caters to 224 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Everest Public High sits 73% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, Everest Public High answers to Everest Public High District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Everest Public High reports that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 82% of students at Everest Public High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Mateo County (around 34%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Around the school, San Mateo County reports that median household earnings sit near $158,855, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, San Mateo County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), of which Everest Public High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Garfield Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. Everest Public High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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