Pacific Valley (K-12)
Big Sur · CA · Big Sur Unified · Public · K-12 combined
Similar nearby schools
Most similar nearby schools
Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Community Day → Leffingwell High (Continuation) → Miles W. Culwell Community Day → Big Sur Charter → Mission Trails ROP → San Luis County Special Education → Carmel Valley High → San Luis Obispo County Juvenile Court →At a glance
- 2 AP courses offered — Limited
- AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Pacific Valley (K-12) compares for families
What families should know about Pacific Valley (K-12).
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Community Day, Leffingwell High (Continuation), Miles W. Culwell Community Day and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 18% of US high schools
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.
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
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monterey Peninsula Unified School District Community Day Seaside |
Public | 52.9 | 3 | — |
| Leffingwell High (Continuation) Cambria |
Public | 32.8 | 5 | — |
| Miles W. Culwell Community Day Coalinga |
Public | 63.7 | 4 | — |
| Big Sur Charter Monterey |
Public · charter | 53.5 | — | — |
| Mission Trails ROP Salinas |
Public | 54.2 | — | — |
| San Luis County Special Education San Luis Obispo |
Public | 57.3 | 7 | — |
| Carmel Valley High Carmel |
Public | 46.6 | 10 | — |
| San Luis Obispo County Juvenile Court San Luis Obispo |
Public | 58.9 | 11 | — |
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