Manzanita Community Day School: Full Guide

Location: North Fork, CA

Are you a student or parent at Manzanita Community Day School? Want to understand how to get the most out of high school?

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

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

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Basic Information

Manzanita Community Day School is a public school, supporting grades 7 to 12 . It's located in North Fork, CA in Madera County.

Based on its location, Manzanita Community Day 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:

Manzanita Community Day School
Po Box 339
North Fork, CA 93643

Phone number: 5598776209

Manzanita Community Day School homepage: http://www.chawanakee.k12.ca.us/Manzanita%20CDS/

Principal: Gary Talley
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at Manzanita Community Day School is 4 students, making it a very small high school, in the bottom 10% of all California high schools by size.

Attending Manzanita 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 Manzanita Community Day, you might consider independent learning or looking at nearby, larger high schools.

Growth in Student Body Size

Is Manzanita Community Day School growing or shrinking? This will help you see trends in where the school is headed.

From our calculations, the enrollment at Manzanita Community Day 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	0	0	0
10^th grade	0	0	0
11^th grade	0	0	0
12^th grade	1	3	4

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

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

Gender Split

Are there more boys or girls at Manzanita Community Day School?

From our statistics, Manzanita Community Day has a 25:75 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

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

If this gender imbalance is a concern for you, we suggest contacting Manzanita Community Day administration and asking if they have any thoughts about why there's a female majority. Their phone number is 5598776209.

Ethnicity Breakdown

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

From our statistics, Manzanita 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 Manzanita 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 Manzanita Community Day are American Indian/Alaska Native. Across the state, only 0.7% of students identify as American Indian/Alaska Native, and only a few dozen schools have American Indian/Alaska Native students as the majority. This makes Manzanita Community Day a special school in this regard.

	Percentage	Number
American Indian/Alaska Native	50.0%	2
Asian	0.0%	0
Hispanic	0.0%	0
Black	0.0%	0
White	50.0%	2
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 North Fork. 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 Manzanita Community Day Families

What are the family incomes of students at Manzanita 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 Manzanita Community Day, 0.0% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 0.0% qualify for free lunches.

This means Manzanita Community Day has a very low poverty level. Nearly no students at Manzanita Community Day qualify for free or reduced price lunches. North Fork is thus likely to have a very affluent community, and Manzanita 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	4	100.0%

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

Because Manzanita 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 Manzanita 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 Manzanita 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 Manzanita 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 Manzanita 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 2 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:

Chawanakee Unified School District Safety

School Name	Total Referred	Total Arrests	Enrollment
Chawanakee Academy	0	0	142
Mountain Oaks High	0	0	12
Minarets High	0	0	280
Minarets Charter High	0	0	135

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