Summit Preparatory Charter High

Summit Preparatory Charter High is a 9-12 campus of rural-scale scale in Redwood City, California, part of Summit Preparatory Charter High District, enrolling 293 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 838.

Summit Preparatory Charter High District is the operating authority for Summit Preparatory Charter High, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Summit Preparatory Charter High shows that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 8% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Mateo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Summit Preparatory Charter High is one.

Hoover Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Summit Preparatory Charter High runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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