Lathrop High

Located at 647 Spartan Way, in Lathrop, California, Lathrop High is a substantial secondary school that caters to 1,486 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Manteca Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Lathrop High sits 77% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 30 schools in Manteca Unified (25,347 students total), Lathrop High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lathrop High shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 24% Asian, 9% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lathrop High has 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at Lathrop High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lathrop High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.4%, the actual is 43.7%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for San Joaquin County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Lathrop High is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

Lathrop Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lathrop High comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Lathrop High's enrollment has rose 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,330 (now 1,486). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 50% to 55% over that span.

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