Gonzales High

Gonzales High is a medium-sized secondary school in Gonzales, California, one of the schools within Gonzales Unified. The school teaches 751 students in grades 9 through 12.

Across the 3 schools in Gonzales Unified (1,961 students total), Gonzales High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gonzales High reports that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Monterey County as a whole is about 62% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Gonzales High logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Gonzales High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.5%; this one delivers 25.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Monterey County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Gonzales High is one of 153 public schools in Monterey County (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students).

Fairview Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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 Gonzales High at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 31.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Gonzales High's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 785 (now 751). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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