La Vida Charter School: Full Guide

Location: Willits, CA

Are you a student or parent at La Vida Charter School? Want to understand how to get the most out of high school?

We've written the best guide to La Vida Charter available. Here we'll cover:

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

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Basic Information

La Vida Charter School is a public school, supporting grades 0 to 12 . It's located in Willits, CA in Mendocino County.

Based on its location, La Vida Charter is classified as a school in a rural fringe area, near an urbanized area. Here's the location on a map:

Contact Information

Mailing address:

La Vida Charter School
Po Box 1461
Ukiah, CA 95482-8724

Phone number: 7074596344

La Vida Charter School homepage: http://www.lavidaschool.org/staff.html

Principal: Ann Kelly
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at La Vida Charter School is 92 students, making it a somewhat small high school, in the bottom half of all California high schools by size.

As a smaller-sized high school, La Vida Charter will feel like a cozy learning environment. With fewer than 100 students in your class, you'll likely get to know most other students and your teachers well. This will give you the feeling of a small liberal arts college.

But with a smaller student body, you won't have as many activities and clubs to choose from. If you find La Vida Charter lacking for your interests, consider looking to your local community to supplement your interests.

Growth in Student Body Size

Is La Vida Charter School growing or shrinking? This will help you see trends in where the school is headed.

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

	Male Students	Female Students	All Students
9^th grade	2	2	4
10^th grade	3	8	11
11^th grade	2	7	9
12^th grade	5	4	9

As you can see in the table above, the senior class is 5 students larger than the freshman class. This suggests that La Vida Charter is shrinking in size and taking on fewer students.

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

Gender Split

Are there more boys or girls at La Vida Charter School?

From our statistics, La Vida Charter has a 37:63 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

There is a large female majority at La Vida Charter, and the imbalance is greater than you would expect from the general population in Mendocino 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 La Vida Charter. 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 La Vida Charter. In yet other cases, other neighboring schools might attract male students, drawing them away from La Vida Charter.

If this gender imbalance is a concern for you, we suggest contacting La Vida Charter administration and asking if they have any thoughts about why there's a female majority. Their phone number is 7074596344.

Ethnicity Breakdown

What's the racial diversity at La Vida Charter School? Does one ethnicity make up most of the student body, or is it fairly balanced?

From our statistics, La Vida Charter has a somewhat homogenous student body, with the majority of students identifying as one ethnicity, but not representing over 70% of the student body. Most schools in California fit this profile, so La Vida Charter isn't out of the ordinary. Most students attending class with you will be of the predominant ethnicity, but there will be meaningful diversity from other races.

The majority of students at La Vida Charter 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 La Vida Charter is one of hundreds of schools in the state that have a majority of white students.

	Percentage	Number
American Indian/Alaska Native	10.8%	10
Asian	4.3%	4
Hispanic	11.9%	11
Black	3.2%	3
White	69.5%	64
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander	0.0%	0
Two or more races	0.0%	0

High schools usually reflect the population in the surrounding area, so the ethnicities of students likely resembles those of Willits. 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 La Vida Charter Families

What are the family incomes of students at La Vida Charter School? 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 La Vida Charter, 19.5% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 50.0% qualify for free lunches.

This means La Vida Charter has a moderate percentage of students at or near poverty. About half of all schools in California show this level of poverty or greater. The income level of families in Willits is likely to be relatively low.

	Number	Percent
Reduced-price lunches	18	19.5%
Free lunches	46	50.0%
Do not qualify for reduced-price or free lunches	28	30.4%

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

La Vida Charter is in the middle 50% of schools by income level. Generally, higher income level schools are better-funded and have a higher quality range of classes and activities. La Vida Charter is likely in the middle of the pack in this regard and will give you a good set of options to try.

If you have any interests that La Vida Charter doesn't cover, look to your local community for activities, or to the Internet for self-study AP classes.

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School Safety

How safe is La Vida Charter School 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 La Vida Charter: 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 La Vida Charter students at risk.

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

Willits Unified School District Safety

School Name	Total Referred	Enrollment
New Horizons	0	49
Sanhedrin High	0	34
Willits High	0	501
Willits Secondary Community Day	0	14
Willits Charter	7	150

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