Pilarcitos Alternative High (Continuation)

As a micro-enrollment high school in Half Moon Bay, California, Pilarcitos Alternative High (Continuation) serves 25 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Cabrillo Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 97% below typical.

Cabrillo Unified comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,548 students; Pilarcitos Alternative High (Continuation) is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pilarcitos Alternative High (Continuation) shows that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 16% White, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, On paper, Pilarcitos Alternative High (Continuation) has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Mateo County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Mateo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Pilarcitos Alternative High (Continuation) is one.

Nearest neighbor: Alvin S. Hatch Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Pilarcitos Alternative High (Continuation).

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

Over the past 7-year window. Pilarcitos Alternative High (Continuation)'s enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 30 (now 25). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

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