Carmel Valley High School: Full Guide

Location: Carmel, CA

Are you a student or parent at Carmel Valley High School? Want to understand how to get the most out of high school?

We've written the best guide to Carmel Valley High available. Here we'll cover:

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

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Basic Information

Carmel Valley High School is a public school, supporting grades 9 to 12 . It's located in Carmel, CA in Monterey County.

Based on its location, Carmel Valley High is classified as a school in a town fringe area, or more than 10 miles from an urbanized area. Here's the location on a map:

Contact Information

Mailing address:

Carmel Valley High School
Po Box 222700
Carmel, CA 93922-2700

Phone number: 8316244462

Carmel Valley High School homepage: http://www.carmelunified.org/domain/337

Principal: Tom Stewart
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at Carmel Valley High School is 19 students, making it a very small high school, in the bottom 10% of all California high schools by size.

Attending Carmel Valley High 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 Carmel Valley High, you might consider independent learning or looking at nearby, larger high schools.

Growth in Student Body Size

Is Carmel Valley High School growing or shrinking? This will help you see trends in where the school is headed.

From our calculations, the enrollment at Carmel Valley High has steadily 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	1	0	1
11^th grade	5	2	7
12^th grade	7	4	11

As you can see in the table above, the senior class is 11 students larger than the freshman class. This suggests that Carmel Valley High is shrinking in size and taking on fewer students.

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

Gender Split

Are there more boys or girls at Carmel Valley High School?

From our statistics, Carmel Valley High has a 69:31 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

There is a large male majority at Carmel Valley High, and much more than you would expect from the general population in Monterey 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 Carmel Valley High. 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 Carmel Valley High.

If the male majority is concerning to you, we suggest contacting Carmel Valley High administration and asking if they have any thoughts about why there's a gender imbalance. Their phone number is 8316244462.

Ethnicity Breakdown

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

From our statistics, Carmel Valley High 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 Carmel Valley High does. When attending class, most students will be of the same ethnicity, with some variation.

The majority of students at Carmel Valley High 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 Carmel Valley High 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	10.5%	2
Black	0.0%	0
White	84.2%	16
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander	0.0%	0
Two or more races	5.2%	1

High schools usually reflect the population in the surrounding area, so the ethnicities of students likely resembles those of Carmel. 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 Carmel Valley High Families

What are the family incomes of students at Carmel Valley High 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 Carmel Valley High, 0.0% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 26.3% qualify for free lunches.

This means Carmel Valley High has a low poverty level. The overwhelming majority of students at Carmel Valley High don't qualify for free or reduced price lunches. Carmel is thus likely to be an affluent community, with quite high family incomes.

	Number	Percent
Reduced-price lunches	0	0.0%
Free lunches	5	26.3%
Do not qualify for reduced-price or free lunches	14	73.6%

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

Because Carmel Valley High 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 Carmel Valley High 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 Carmel Valley High 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 Carmel Valley High: 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 Carmel Valley High students at risk.

In the school year of 2011-2012, there were 4 referrals to law enforcement (2 male, 2 female), and 2 school-related arrests (2 males, 0 females). This is out of a total enrollment of 28 students.

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

This means that 21.4 Carmel Valley High has major safety issues. For every 100 students, there were 21.4 law-enforcement related actions. This is a very high number that puts Carmel Valley High in the top 10% of schools with disciplinary actions.

With this record, is Carmel Valley High School significantly different from other schools in the area? It could be that Carmel Valley High has an especially bad record, or it could be that the local area shows a pattern.

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

Carmel Unified School District Safety

School Name	Total Referred	Total Arrests	Enrollment
Carmel High	0	0	795

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