Summit Public School: Tahoma

Located at 285 Blossom Hill Rd., in San Jose, California, Summit Public School: Tahoma is a low-enrollment high school that serves 383 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Summit Public School: Tahoma District. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 54% below typical.

Summit Public School: Tahoma District is the operating authority for Summit Public School: Tahoma, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, Summit Public School: Tahoma lists that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 23% White, 21% Asian, 13% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at Summit Public School: Tahoma qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, Santa Clara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Summit Public School: Tahoma is one.

Oak Grove High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Summit Public School: Tahoma operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, Summit Public School: Tahoma runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On allk12, the feed for Summit Public School: Tahoma typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.