Prospect High

Prospect High is a four-year high school of heavily attended scale in Saratoga, California, overseen by Campbell Union High, instructing 1,460 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Prospect High is one of 6 schools operated by Campbell Union High, a district that caters to 8,359 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Prospect High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 30% Asian, 19% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Prospect High logs 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Prospect High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 55.2%, a residual of +5.0 points.

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

Christa McAuliffe is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Prospect High comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 79.4%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Prospect High's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,469 (now 1,460). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 28% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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