Mt. Madonna High

Located at 8750 Hirasaki Ct., in Gilroy, California, Mt. Madonna High is a rural-scale high school that enrolls 150 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Gilroy Unified. That puts it 82% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Within Gilroy Unified, which oversees 14 schools and 10,176 students, Mt. Madonna High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mt. Madonna High logs that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, Mt. Madonna High reports 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) reports that median household earnings sit near $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Mt. Madonna High is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Rod Kelley Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Mt. Madonna High operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mt. Madonna High's enrollment has declined 26% since 2018, when it stood at 203 (now 150). Over the same period, the White share fell from 14% to 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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