Shandon High

Shandon High operates as a rural-scale high school in Shandon, California, run under Shandon Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 83 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 90% below typical.

Shandon Joint Unified comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 261 students; Shandon High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Shandon High shows that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 11% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 71% of students at Shandon High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Shandon High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.1%; Shandon High posts 19.1%, -18.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Luis Obispo County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,446 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across San Luis Obispo County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), Shandon High is one campus in the mix.

Shandon Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shandon High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Shandon High's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 87 (now 83). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 24% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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