West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School: Full Guide

Location: Sebastopol, CA

Are you a student or parent at West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School? Want to understand how to get the most out of high school?

We've written the best guide to WSCUHSD Community Day available. Here we'll cover:

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

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Basic Information

West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School is a public school, supporting grades 9 to 12 . It's located in Sebastopol, CA in Sonoma County.

Based on its location, WSCUHSD Community Day is classified as a school in a large suburb. Here's the location on a map:

Contact Information

Mailing address:

West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School
490 Taft St.
Sebastopol, CA 95472

Phone number: 7078246403

West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School homepage: http://wscuhsd.k12.ca.us/

Principal: Kent Cromwell
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School is 5 students, making it a very small high school, in the bottom 10% of all California high schools by size.

Attending WSCUHSD Community Day will feel very cozy, and you'll likely know everyone in your school. This will be a very intimate learning environment.

Unfortunately, with a tiny class size, you may lack a large diversity of activities and classes to join. If you feel your interests aren't well catered by WSCUHSD Community Day, you might consider independent learning or looking at nearby, larger high schools.

Growth in Student Body Size

Is West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School growing or shrinking? This will help you see trends in where the school is headed.

From our calculations, the enrollment at WSCUHSD Community Day has stayed about the same 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	1	0	1
10^th grade	0	1	1
11^th grade	1	1	2
12^th grade	0	1	1

Gender Split

Are there more boys or girls at West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School?

From our statistics, WSCUHSD Community Day has a 40:60 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

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

If this gender imbalance is a concern for you, we suggest contacting WSCUHSD Community Day administration and asking if they have any thoughts about why there's a female majority. Their phone number is 7078246403.

Ethnicity Breakdown

What's the racial diversity at West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School? Does one ethnicity make up most of the student body, or is it fairly balanced?

From our statistics, WSCUHSD Community Day 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 WSCUHSD Community Day 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 WSCUHSD Community Day 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 WSCUHSD Community Day is one of hundreds of schools in the state that have a majority of white students.

	Percentage	Number
American Indian/Alaska Native	0.0%	0
Asian	0.0%	0
Hispanic	40.0%	2
Black	0.0%	0
White	60.0%	3
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 Sebastopol. 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 WSCUHSD Community Day Families

What are the family incomes of students at West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day 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 WSCUHSD Community Day, 0.0% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 0.0% qualify for free lunches.

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

	Number	Percent
Reduced-price lunches	0	0.0%
Free lunches	0	0.0%
Do not qualify for reduced-price or free lunches	5	100.0%

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

Because WSCUHSD Community Day 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 WSCUHSD Community Day has to offer. If you work hard and spend your time effectively, you'll likely be well positioned to succeed in college and beyond.

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School Safety

How safe is West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day 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 WSCUHSD Community Day: 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 WSCUHSD Community Day students at risk.

In the school year of 2011-2012, there were 0 referrals to law enforcement, and 0 school-related arrests. This is out of a total enrollment of 19 students.

To put this into perspective, most California schools (59% of them) reported 0 law enforcement referrals and arrests.

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

West Sonoma County Union High School District Safety

School Name	Total Referred	Enrollment
Analy High	47	1321
El Molino High	9	767
Laguna High	0	93
West Sonoma County Consortium	0	48

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 West Sonoma County Union High School District Community Day School? Will you be competitive for college? Will you have access to advanced classes?

We've compiled everything we could find about WSCUHSD Community Day's academics here.

Graduation Rate

To start off, an important benchmark of academic achievement is graduation rate. For all students who start high school at WSCUHSD Community Day, the state of California wants as many students to graduate as possible, since a high school diploma can mean a big difference in getting a job.

At WSCUHSD Community Day, 92% WSCUHSD Community Day students graduated within four years of starting high school.

Here's how this stacks up to other schools. The California state government has defined 90% as a target rate. The state average is around 80-85%.

WSCUHSD Community Day is in the 78th percentile of all public high schools in California for graduation rate. This is well above average. Generally, a graduation rate of above 90% is considered good and well above average, and below 75% is well below average.

Note: This data comes from a few years back, but the trends are likely to stay the same, since schools don't get significantly better or worse within a short period of time.

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