Sierra Hills Education Center: Full Guide

Location: San Andreas, CA

Are you a student or parent at Sierra Hills Education Center? Want to understand how to get the most out of high school?

We've written the best guide to Sierra Hills Education Center available. Here we'll cover:

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

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Basic Information

Sierra Hills Education Center is a public school, supporting grades 0 to 12 . It's located in San Andreas, CA in Calaveras County.

Based on its location, Sierra Hills Education Center 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:

Sierra Hills Education Center
Po Box 178
San Andreas, CA 95249-0178

Phone number: 2097542123

Sierra Hills Education Center homepage: http://www.calaveras.k12.ca.us/Schools/calaveras_unified_school_distric.htm

Principal: Kathy Griggs
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at Sierra Hills Education Center is 22 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 Sierra Hills Education Center 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 Sierra Hills Education Center, 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 Sierra Hills Education Center growing or shrinking? This will help you see trends in where the school is headed.

From our calculations, the enrollment at Sierra Hills Education Center has increased 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	4	2	6
10^th grade	2	2	4
11^th grade	1	3	4
12^th grade	1	3	4

As you can see in the table above, the freshman class is 2 students larger than the senior class. This suggests that the school is growing in size and taking on more students.

There are a few reasons this could be happening. The city of San Andreas could be growing in population, thus sending more students into Sierra Hills Education Center. Alternatively, Sierra Hills Education Center could be relaxing its student policies and taking in more students.

Gender Split

Are there more boys or girls at Sierra Hills Education Center?

From our statistics, Sierra Hills Education Center has a 45:55 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

Sierra Hills Education Center has a balanced male-female ratio that's largely representative of the general population in Calaveras County. Since the student body is roughly half and half, it should feel like there are equal numbers of boys and girls in your classes.

This usually means that Sierra Hills Education Center doesn't strongly select for either males or females, unlike other schools that have a large majority of males or females.

Ethnicity Breakdown

What's the racial diversity at Sierra Hills Education Center? Does one ethnicity make up most of the student body, or is it fairly balanced?

From our statistics, Sierra Hills Education Center 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 Sierra Hills Education Center does. When attending class, most students will be of the same ethnicity, with some variation.

The majority of students at Sierra Hills Education Center 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 Sierra Hills Education Center 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	13.6%	3
Black	9.0%	2
White	72.7%	16
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander	0.0%	0
Two or more races	4.5%	1

High schools usually reflect the population in the surrounding area, so the ethnicities of students likely resembles those of San Andreas. 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 Sierra Hills Education Center Families

What are the family incomes of students at Sierra Hills Education Center? 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 Sierra Hills Education Center, 9.0% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 4.5% qualify for free lunches.

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

	Number	Percent
Reduced-price lunches	2	9.0%
Free lunches	1	4.5%
Do not qualify for reduced-price or free lunches	19	86.3%

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

Because Sierra Hills Education Center 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 Sierra Hills Education Center 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 Sierra Hills Education Center 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 Sierra Hills Education Center: 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 Sierra Hills Education Center 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 35 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:

Calaveras Unified School District Safety

School Name	Total Referred	Enrollment
Calaveras High	0	1014
Gold Strike High	7	49
Jenny Lind High	0	24
West Point Alternative	0	0

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