Vine Street Community Day School: Full Guide

Location: Porterville, CA

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

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

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

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Basic Information

Vine Street Community Day School is a public school, supporting grades 7 to 12 . It's located in Porterville, CA in Tulare County.

Based on its location, Vine Street Community Day is classified as a school in a small city. Here's the location on a map:

Contact Information

Mailing address:

Vine Street Community Day School
600 W. Grand Ave.
Porterville, CA 93257-2029

Phone number: 5597826650

Vine Street Community Day School homepage: http://www.portervilleschools.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?type=d&uREC_ID=294177&pREC_ID=679788

Principal: Monty Newkirk
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at Vine Street Community Day School is 12 students, making it a very small high school, in the bottom 10% of all California high schools by size.

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

Growth in Student Body Size

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

From our calculations, the enrollment at Vine Street Community Day 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	1	5
10^th grade	1	0	1
11^th grade	3	0	3
12^th grade	0	1	1

As you can see in the table above, the freshman class is 4 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 Porterville could be growing in population, thus sending more students into Vine Street Community Day. Alternatively, Vine Street Community Day could be relaxing its student policies and taking in more students.

Gender Split

Are there more boys or girls at Vine Street Community Day School?

From our statistics, Vine Street Community Day has a 80:20 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

There is a large male majority at Vine Street Community Day, and much more than you would expect from the general population in Tulare 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 Vine Street Community Day. 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 Vine Street Community Day.

If the male majority is concerning to you, we suggest contacting Vine Street Community Day administration and asking if they have any thoughts about why there's a gender imbalance. Their phone number is 5597826650.

Ethnicity Breakdown

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

From our statistics, Vine Street Community Day has a very homogenous student body, with over 90% of students identifying as one ethnicity. This is especially extreme - fewer than 10% of California schools show as little racial diversity as Vine Street Community Day does. When attending class, you'll be surrounded by students of the same ethnicity.

The majority of students at Vine Street Community Day are Hispanic. In California, Hispanic students make up the majority of all students at 51.5%, and are thus the most common ethnicity. Predominantly Hispanic schools are the most common type of homogenous school, and Vine Street Community Day fits within this category.

	Percentage	Number
American Indian/Alaska Native	0.0%	0
Asian	0.0%	0
Hispanic	91.6%	11
Black	0.0%	0
White	0.0%	0
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander	0.0%	0
Two or more races	8.3%	1

High schools usually reflect the population in the surrounding area, so the ethnicities of students likely resembles those of Porterville. 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 Vine Street Community Day Families

What are the family incomes of students at Vine Street 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 Vine Street Community Day, 0.0% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 75.0% qualify for free lunches.

This means Vine Street Community Day has a moderate percentage of students at or near poverty. About half of all schools in California show this level of poverty or greater. The income level of families in Porterville is likely to be relatively low.

	Number	Percent
Reduced-price lunches	0	0.0%
Free lunches	9	75.0%
Do not qualify for reduced-price or free lunches	3	25.0%

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

Vine Street Community Day is in the middle 50% of schools by income level. Generally, higher income level schools are better-funded and have a higher quality range of classes and activities. Vine Street Community Day is likely in the middle of the pack in this regard and will give you a good set of options to try.

If you have any interests that Vine Street Community Day doesn't cover, look to your local community for activities, or to the Internet for self-study AP classes.

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School Safety

How safe is Vine Street 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 Vine Street 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 Vine Street 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 17 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:

Porterville Unified School District Safety

School Name	Total Arrests	Enrollment
Citrus High	0	183
Monache High	0	1928
Porterville High	0	1867
Granite Hills High	4	1867
Prospect Education Center	0	145
Strathmore High	0	653

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 Vine Street Community Day School? Will you be competitive for college? Will you have access to advanced classes?

We've compiled everything we could find about Vine Street 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 Vine Street 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 Vine Street Community Day, 78% Vine Street 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%.

Vine Street Community Day is in the 41st percentile of all public high schools in California for graduation rate. This is below 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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