The MET

The MET is a tiny high school in Sacramento, California, overseen by Sacramento City Unified. The school enrolls 190 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so The MET sits 77% below that benchmark.

Sacramento City Unified comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 37,657 students; The MET is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, The MET logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 33% White, 9% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at The MET qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, The MET is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.5%; The MET posts 33.0%, -20.5 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Sacramento County reports that median household earnings sit near $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which The MET is one.

Nearest neighbor: William Land Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The MET. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), The MET ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 41.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. The MET is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. The MET's enrollment has edged down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 281 (now 190). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 39% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

On allk12, members of the The MET community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.