Willow Community Day School: Full Guide

Location: Tracy, CA

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

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

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

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Basic Information

Willow Community Day School is a public school, supporting grades 7 to 12 . It's located in Tracy, CA in San Joaquin County.

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

Contact Information

Mailing address:

Willow Community Day School
164 W. Grant Line Rd.
Tracy, CA 95376

Phone number: 2098303357

Willow Community Day School homepage: https://www.tracy.k12.ca.us/sites/wcds/

Principal: Dave Pickering
Email the principal: [email protected]

Student Demographics

Student Enrollment

The total enrollment at Willow Community Day School is 39 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 Willow Community Day 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 Willow Community Day, 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 Willow Community Day School growing or shrinking? This will help you see trends in where the school is headed.

From our calculations, the enrollment at Willow 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	2	0	2
10^th grade	3	3	6
11^th grade	10	10	20
12^th grade	5	2	7

As you can see in the table above, the senior class is 5 students larger than the freshman class. This suggests that Willow Community Day is shrinking in size and taking on fewer students.

There are a few reasons this can happen. The population of Tracy could be decreasing, thus sending fewer students into Willow 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 Willow Community Day School?

From our statistics, Willow Community Day has a 58:42 split between male and female students in the high school grades.

There is a large male majority at Willow Community Day, and much more than you would expect from the general population in San Joaquin 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 Willow 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 Willow Community Day.

If the male majority is concerning to you, we suggest contacting Willow Community Day administration and asking if they have any thoughts about why there's a gender imbalance. Their phone number is 2098303357.

Ethnicity Breakdown

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

From our statistics, Willow 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 Willow 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 Willow 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 Willow Community Day fits within this category.

	Percentage	Number
American Indian/Alaska Native	2.5%	1
Asian	2.5%	1
Hispanic	64.1%	25
Black	20.5%	8
White	2.5%	1
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander	5.1%	2
Two or more races	2.5%	1

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

What are the family incomes of students at Willow 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 Willow Community Day, 12.8% of students qualify for reduced-price lunches, and 35.8% qualify for free lunches.

This means Willow Community Day has a below average level of poverty. With most students not qualifying for free or reduced price lunches, Willow Community Day is below average among California schools in poverty level. The income level of families in Tracy is thus likely to be relatively high.

	Number	Percent
Reduced-price lunches	5	12.8%
Free lunches	14	35.8%
Do not qualify for reduced-price or free lunches	20	51.2%

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

Willow 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. Willow 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 Willow 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 Willow 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 Willow 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 Willow 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 38 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:

Tracy Joint Unified School District Safety

School Name	Total Referred	Enrollment
Excel High	0	0
Merrill F. West High	21	2230
Duncan-russell Continuation	2	39
Tracy High	32	1957
Millennium Charter	0	0
George And Evelyn Stein Continuation	4	139

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

We've compiled everything we could find about Willow 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 Willow 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 Willow Community Day, 83% Willow 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%.

Willow Community Day is in the 49th 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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