Point Arena High

Point Arena High is one of the micro-enrollment secondary schools in Point Arena, California, one of the schools within Point Arena Joint Union High, with 131 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 84% below the state mean of about 838.

Point Arena Joint Union High comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 139 students; Point Arena High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Point Arena High logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%; the rest looks like 28% White, 6% Native American. By comparison, Mendocino County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Mendocino County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Point Arena High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.9%; Point Arena High posts 19.2%, -31.6 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Mendocino County shows median household income runs about $68,092, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Point Arena High is one of 66 public schools in Mendocino County (combined enrollment of about 12,738 students).

South Coast Continuation is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Point Arena High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 18.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Point Arena High's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 142 (now 131). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 54% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Point Arena High typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.