Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School: Full Guide

Location: Salton City, CA

Are you a student or parent at Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School? Want to understand how to get the most out of high school?

We've written the best guide to JBDA available. Here we'll cover:

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

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Basic Information

Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School is a public school, supporting grades 7 to 12 . It's located in Salton City, CA in Imperial County.

Based on its location, JBDA is classified as a school in a distant rural area, somewhat far from an urbanized area. Here's the location on a map:

Contact Information

Mailing address:

Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School
Po Box 315
Borrego Springs, CA 92004

Phone number: 7607675850

Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School homepage: https://www.facebook.com/BSHSAlumni/

Principal: Sandra Thorpe
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School is 58 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 JBDA 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 JBDA, 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 Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School growing or shrinking? This will help you see trends in where the school is headed.

From our calculations, the enrollment at JBDA 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	5	3	8
10^th grade	4	3	7
11^th grade	6	4	10
12^th grade	6	6	12

As you can see in the table above, the senior class is 4 students larger than the freshman class. This suggests that JBDA is shrinking in size and taking on fewer students.

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

Gender Split

Are there more boys or girls at Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School?

From our statistics, JBDA has a 57:43 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

There is a large male majority at JBDA, and much more than you would expect from the general population in Imperial 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 JBDA. In other cases, the school might preferentially select for males. For example, in our data we find that continuation high schools unfortunately seem to be male-dominated. In yet other cases, other neighboring schools might attract female students, drawing them away from JBDA.

If the male majority is concerning to you, we suggest contacting JBDA administration and asking if they have any thoughts about why there's a gender imbalance. Their phone number is 7607675850.

Ethnicity Breakdown

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

From our statistics, JBDA has a diverse student body. No single ethnicity composes more than 50% of all students, which means you'll be surrounded by a diverse set of students in class. Only a third of California schools show this much diversity.

The most common ethnicity at JBDA is Hispanic. In California, 51.5% of all students are Hispanic, making it the most common ethnicity. Even though JBDA is relatively diverse, students of Hispanic descent are the most common ethnicity here.

	Percentage	Number
American Indian/Alaska Native	5.1%	3
Asian	3.4%	2
Hispanic	46.5%	27
Black	5.1%	3
White	39.6%	23
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 Salton City. 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 JBDA Families

What are the family incomes of students at Juan Bautista De Anza 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 JBDA, 15.5% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 63.7% qualify for free lunches.

This means JBDA has a high percentage of students at or near poverty. Almost a third of all schools in California show this level of poverty, and by National Center for Education Statistics standards, JBDA can be classified as a high poverty school. The income level of families in Salton City is thus likely to be low.

	Number	Percent
Reduced-price lunches	9	15.5%
Free lunches	37	63.7%
Do not qualify for reduced-price or free lunches	12	20.6%

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

Unfortunately, schools in areas of lower income levels are likely to be more poorly funded. As a result, they might feature less advanced coursework like AP/IB classes, and you may not have a full range of sports and extracurriculars to draw from. Because JBDA is an especially high poverty-level school, it might not have the resources you need to meet your full potential.

You definitely don't have control over the city, the school, or other families, but you can structure your own learning to be more productive. If you'd like to open yourself to more opportunities, you can look into whether it's possible to transfer to a nearby school with higher income levels.

If not, don't be alarmed - it's possible that JBDA has all that you need for your ambition. And you can definitely be proactive about learning outside of your school, looking to your community or to the Internet to find more resources.

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School Safety

How safe is Juan Bautista De Anza 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 JBDA: 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 JBDA 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 71 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:

Borrego Springs Unified School District Safety

School Name	Total Referred	Total Arrests	Enrollment
Borrego Springs High	0	0	0
Palm Canyon Continuation High	0	0	0
Santa Rosa Community Day	0	0	0
Oxford Preparatory Academy	0	0	0

Sports Teams

Finally, we'll cover which sports teams are available at Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School. Sports are an integral part of many students' high school experiences. The more sports that are available, and the more levels supported (Frosh, JV, Varsity), the more likely you'll be able to participate in a sport at JBDA.

By the way, the Juan Bautista De Anza mascot is the Crusaders. Go Crusaders!

Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School fields 3 teams for girls' sports. This is a low number that puts JBDA in the bottom 25% of California schools that offer girls' sports. This is understandable - sports teams are expensive to support, and many schools would rather support other programs with their limited resources. If you play a sport that JBDA doesn't field a team for, consider joining a local non-school team to get practice and compete.

And now for the boys: Juan Bautista De Anza Charter School fields 3 teams for boys' sports. This low number puts JBDA in the bottom 25% of California schools that offer boys' sports. If you play a sport that JBDA doesn't field a team for, consider joining a local non-school team to get practice and compete.

Boys Teams	Girls Teams
Tennis Var JV Fr	Tennis Var JV Fr
Basketball Var JV Fr	Basketball Var JV Fr
Baseball Var JV Fr
	Softball Var JV Fr

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