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East Palo Alto, California - 1 schools
299
Total Enrollment
1
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Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
East Palo Alto Academy District operates 1 public schools serving 299 students, placing it among the smallest districts in California. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in San Mateo County.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (3 AP courses district-wide), a 139:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 70.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 90.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.5% African American, 0.7% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is East Palo Alto Academy, enrolling 278 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
East Palo Alto Academy accounts for 93.0% of all East Palo Alto Academy District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of East Palo Alto Academy District a distant remainder — means East Palo Alto Academy District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
East Palo Alto Academy District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 62.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
East Palo Alto Academy District student-counselor ratio is 139:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
East Palo Alto Academy District chronic absenteeism rate is 70.9% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to East Palo Alto Academy District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in East Palo Alto Academy District?
East Palo Alto Academy District has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 299 students.
What is the demographic composition of East Palo Alto Academy District?
East Palo Alto Academy District students are 90.3% Hispanic or Latino, 2.5% African American, 0.7% White, 0.4% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.