Pacific Coast Academy

Pacific Coast Academy is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a combined-grade school in Poway, California. It serves 6,760 students in kindergarten through 12. For comparison, combined schools in California average about 602 students.

Pacific Coast Academy District is responsible for Pacific Coast Academy.

At 53%, White students outnumber all other groups at Pacific Coast Academy combined. It is also 31% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Pacific Coast Academy belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.

Pacific Coast Academy's 190.8 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 35.4:1. That ratio is over the 18.6:1 average for combined schools in California. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 38%. That is 16 points below the 54% average for public schools in San Diego County.

San Diego County census figures show that median household income is about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Pacific Coast Academy is among the 766 public schools in San Diego County.

Nearest public school: Cabrillo Point Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around Pacific Coast Academy holds at least 8 other public schools.

Pacific Coast Academy is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter. Pacific Coast Academy is a virtual school according to federal records.

Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.