Carlsbad Seaside Academy: Full Guide

Location: Carlsbad, CA

Are you a student or parent at Carlsbad Seaside Academy? Want to understand how to get the most out of high school?

We've written the best guide to Carlsbad Seaside Academy available. Here we'll cover:

• Breakdowns of student ethnicity, gender, and family income
• How safe Carlsbad Seaside Academy is to attend
• SAT/ACT/AP scores earned by Carlsbad Seaside Academy students
• Which AP/IB classes you can take at Carlsbad Seaside Academy
• Every sports team you can join at Carlsbad Seaside Academy

Let's get started!

Basic Information

Carlsbad Seaside Academy is a public school, supporting grades 9 to 12 . It's located in Carlsbad, CA in San Diego County.

Based on its location, Carlsbad Seaside Academy is classified as a school in a midsized city. Here's the location on a map:

Contact Information

Mailing address:

Carlsbad Seaside Academy
6225 El Camino Real
Carlsbad, CA 92009

Phone number: 7603315100

Carlsbad Seaside Academy homepage: https://csa.schoolloop.com/

Principal: Jorge Espinoza
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at Carlsbad Seaside Academy is 56 students, making it a small high school, in the bottom 25% of all California high schools by size.

With at most a few dozen students in your class, you'll get to know most other Carlsbad Seaside Academy students well. But the small student body size may mean that you won't get access to the full range of activities and classes that other high schools offer.

If you find that your interests aren't well served by Carlsbad Seaside Academy, consider transferring to a larger high school if possible, or find ways to supplement your interests in your community or on the Internet.

Growth in Student Body Size

Is Carlsbad Seaside Academy growing or shrinking? This will help you see trends in where the school is headed.

From our calculations, the enrollment at Carlsbad Seaside Academy has decreased over the past few years. We calculate this by comparing enrollment in grades 9 to 12.

	Male Students	Female Students	All Students
9th grade	1	4	5
10th grade	5	8	13
11th grade	5	14	19
12th grade	9	8	17

As you can see in the table above, the senior class is 12 students larger than the freshman class. This suggests that Carlsbad Seaside Academy is shrinking in size and taking on fewer students.

There are a few reasons this can happen. The population of Carlsbad could be decreasing, thus sending fewer students into Carlsbad Seaside Academy. Alternatively, other schools (like charter or private schools) might be appearing, drawing students away.

Gender Split

Are there more boys or girls at Carlsbad Seaside Academy?

From our statistics, Carlsbad Seaside Academy has a 38:62 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

There is a large female majority at Carlsbad Seaside Academy, and the imbalance is greater than you would expect from the general population in San Diego County. As a result, it'll feel like there are a lot more girls than boys in your classes.

Sometimes this imbalance can result from random chance and may not suggest anything about Carlsbad Seaside Academy. In other cases, the school might preferentially select for females (if it has its own admissions criteria), or parents with female kids might prefer to send them to Carlsbad Seaside Academy. In yet other cases, other neighboring schools might attract male students, drawing them away from Carlsbad Seaside Academy.

If this gender imbalance is a concern for you, we suggest contacting Carlsbad Seaside Academy administration and asking if they have any thoughts about why there's a female majority. Their phone number is 7603315100.

Ethnicity Breakdown

What's the racial diversity at Carlsbad Seaside Academy? Does one ethnicity make up most of the student body, or is it fairly balanced?

From our statistics, Carlsbad Seaside Academy has a homogenous student body, with the overwhelming majority of students identifying as one ethnicity. Only a third of California schools show as little diversity as Carlsbad Seaside Academy does. When attending class, most students will be of the same ethnicity, with some variation.

The majority of students at Carlsbad Seaside Academy are white. In California, white students make up 26.3% of all California students, and are the second most common ethnicity after Hispanic students. Thus Carlsbad Seaside Academy is one of hundreds of schools in the state that have a majority of white students.

	Percentage	Number
American Indian/Alaska Native	1.7%	1
Asian	3.5%	2
Hispanic	17.8%	10
Black	0.0%	0
White	73.2%	41
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander	0.0%	0
Two or more races	3.5%	2

High schools usually reflect the population in the surrounding area, so the ethnicities of students likely resembles those of Carlsbad. If you'd like to see how other nearby schools look in diversity, just google "[name of school] prepscholar" to find our guide to that specific school.

Income Level of Carlsbad Seaside Academy Families

What are the family incomes of students at Carlsbad Seaside Academy? To determine this, we look at the number of students who qualify for free or reduced lunches, a classification by the US federal government.

To qualify for a reduced price meal, family income needs to be below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines. For a family of 4, this means an income of around $45,000 or below.

To qualify for a free meal, family income needs to be below 130% of the federal poverty guidelines. For a family of 4, this means an income of around $32,000 or below.

The lower the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced price meals, the higher the income levels are likely to be.

At Carlsbad Seaside Academy, 3.5% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 1.7% qualify for free lunches.

This means Carlsbad Seaside Academy has a very low poverty level. Nearly no students at Carlsbad Seaside Academy qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Carlsbad is thus likely to have a very affluent community, and Carlsbad Seaside Academy is in the top 10% of California schools in terms of family income.

	Number	Percent
Reduced-price lunches	2	3.5%
Free lunches	1	1.7%
Do not qualify for reduced-price or free lunches	53	94.6%

As with ethnicity, this likely reflects the surrounding community in Carlsbad and doesn't speak much about the school itself.

Because Carlsbad Seaside Academy is in the top quartile of schools by family income, it's likely to be well-funded relative to other high schools in California. This means you'll likely have access to advanced coursework like AP/IB classes and better-funded extracurriculars and sports.

It's still up to you, though, to take advantage of the resources Carlsbad Seaside Academy has to offer. If you work hard and spend your time effectively, you'll likely be well positioned to succeed in college and beyond.

School Safety

How safe is Carlsbad Seaside Academy to attend? Can you expect a lot of conflict as a student here?

To study this, we look at disciplinary data for two types of incidents at Carlsbad Seaside Academy: referrals to law enforcement (when incidents are reported to police), and arrests.

These are the most serious disciplinary actions available to school administration and are more severe than suspensions or expulsions. Suspensions are often discretionary and can be given just for being disruptive in class. In contrast, law enforcement referrals and arrests often indicate incidents that put the safety of other Carlsbad Seaside Academy students at risk.

Compare this school with other high schools in the same school district, using the following table:

Carlsbad Unified School District Safety

School Name	Total Referred	Total Arrests	Enrollment
Carlsbad High	0	0	3079
Carlsbad Village Academy	0	0	124
Sage Creek High	0	0	0

Academic Performance

Now we get to a major aspect of assessing a high school: academic performance. How good of an education will you get at Carlsbad Seaside Academy? Will you be competitive for college? Will you have access to advanced classes?

We've compiled everything we could find about Carlsbad Seaside Academy's academics here.

Standardized Testing

Next, we'll look at another major piece of high school academics: standardized testing performance for Carlsbad Seaside Academy students. These are tests that are administered to large populations of students for comparison purposes.

Let’s start by taking a look at the data for nationally administered standardized tests.

Advanced Placement (AP)

Advanced Placement (AP) classes are college-level courses that are an additional academic challenge may give Carlsbad Seaside Academy students credit for college.

Here's what we're looking for: high average AP test scores as well as high AP passing rates.

AP Test-Taking Statistics

One way to gauge the quality of a school's AP program is to see how many AP students actually took AP exams at Carlsbad Seaside Academy. If a lot of students enroll in AP courses but don't actually take the AP tests, it can be a sign that students don't feel adequately prepared to take the test, or the school isn't encouraging students to take the exams enough.

Note: The most recent data we have available is from 2012, so the statistics may have changed since then. Most likely, however, the trends are likely to continue - above average schools are likely to stay above average, and below average schools are likely to stay below average.

AP Passing Rates

For AP students at Carlsbad Seaside Academy who take the exam, it's important to know how they do. Here we have specific data on how many students got a passing grade (a 3 or above) on all, some, or none of the AP exams that they took.