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Tranquillity High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Tranquillity High
Tranquillity High, an intimate four-year high school in Tranquillity, California, run under Golden Plains Unified, educates 370 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 56% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.
Tranquillity High is one of 6 schools operated by Golden Plains Unified, a district that teaches 1,351 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Tranquillity High records that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tranquillity High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.9%; this one delivers 12.5%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Fresno County put the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Tranquillity High is one campus in the mix.
Tranquillity Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tranquillity High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.7%.
Tranquillity High operates from a low-density location.
Five-year trend. Tranquillity High's enrollment has shrank 26% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 370). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.
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