Pacific Valley (K-12)
Big Sur · CA · Big Sur Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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Pinnacle Coastal Valley High → Portola-Butler Continuation High → King City High → Hillsview Christian Academic School → Greenfield High → Leffingwell High (Continuation) → Coast Union High → Soledad Transition Center →📋 At a glance
- 📚 2 AP courses offered — Limited
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Pacific Valley (K-12) compares for families
What families should know about Pacific Valley (K-12).
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Pinnacle Coastal Valley High, Portola-Butler Continuation High, King City High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 18% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -13.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 11 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinnacle Coastal Valley High King City |
Public | 27.3 | 77 | +24.2% |
| Portola-Butler Continuation High King City |
Public | 27.3 | 115 | +121.2% |
| King City High King City |
Public | 27.3 | 1,199 | -3.2% |
| Hillsview Christian Academic School King City |
Private | 27.9 | 36 | — |
| Greenfield High Greenfield |
Public | 30.0 | 1,274 | -8.7% |
| Leffingwell High (Continuation) Cambria |
Public | 32.8 | 5 | — |
| Coast Union High Cambria |
Public | 33.0 | 159 | -1.2% |
| Soledad Transition Center Soledad |
Public | 36.0 | 12 | — |