Tide Academy

Tide Academy operates as a micro-enrollment four-year high school in Menlo Park, California, one of the schools within Sequoia Union High. Current enrollment sits at 212 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 75% below the state mean of about 838.

Sequoia Union High runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 8,419 students. Tide Academy is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tide Academy lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Beyond that, the school shows 22% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Tide Academy logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tide Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.7%.

Across the wider county, San Mateo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Mateo County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), Tide Academy is one campus in the mix.

Belle Haven Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tide Academy. On composite proficiency, Tide Academy comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

Tide Academy operates from a residential location.

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