Summit Public School: Tamalpais

Set in Richmond, California, Summit Public School: Tamalpais is an intimate high school, run under Summit Public School: Tamalpais District. It works with 629 students across grades 7 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Summit Public School: Tamalpais sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Summit Public School: Tamalpais records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Asian, 7% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Summit Public School: Tamalpais lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Zooming out to the county, Contra Costa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Summit Public School: Tamalpais is one.

Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy 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.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. Summit Public School: Tamalpais operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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