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Liberty High (Continuation) → Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE) → Independence High → Grizzly ChalleNGe Charter → Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills → Monterey County Home Charter → Maple High → San Luis Obispo County Community →At a glance
- 9 AP courses offered — Elite
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 1 calculus classes · 1 physics · 4 chemistry
- AP rigor: 73rd percentile nationally
- 4-yr grad rate: 95% in 2019 (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Coast Union High compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 73rd percentile nationally with 9 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Liberty High (Continuation), Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE), Independence High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
73rd percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
75th percentile nationally
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 159 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty High (Continuation) Paso Robles |
Public | 22.5 | 171 | +3.6% |
| Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (ACE) Atascadero |
Public | 25.3 | 159 | -16.3% |
| Independence High Paso Robles |
Public | 22.5 | 137 | +10.5% |
| Grizzly ChalleNGe Charter San Luis Obispo |
Public · charter | 25.4 | 241 | +36.2% |
| Wonderful College Prep Academy - Lost Hills Lost Hills |
Public · charter | 77.7 | 154 | +129.9% |
| Monterey County Home Charter Salinas |
Public · charter | 81.5 | 152 | -9.0% |
| Maple High Lompoc |
Public | 69.2 | 135 | +7.1% |
| San Luis Obispo County Community San Luis Obispo |
Public | 24.4 | 73 | +25.9% |
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