Pioneer High (Continuation)
Gustine · CA · Gustine Unified · Public
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Gustine High → Foothill Community Day → West Side Valley High (Continuation) → Orestimba High → Hilmar High → Irwin High (Continuation) → Valley Los Banos Community → San Luis High (Continuation) →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 84% (Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Pioneer High (Continuation) compares for families
What families should know about Pioneer High (Continuation).
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Gustine High, Foothill Community Day, West Side Valley High (Continuation) and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 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 +14.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 18 students:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gustine High Gustine |
Public | 0.0 | 531 | -11.8% |
| Foothill Community Day Newman |
Public | 4.3 | 1 | — |
| West Side Valley High (Continuation) Newman |
Public | 4.3 | 41 | — |
| Orestimba High Newman |
Public | 4.5 | 925 | -5.5% |
| Hilmar High Hilmar |
Public | 12.7 | 696 | +1.3% |
| Irwin High (Continuation) Hilmar |
Public | 12.7 | 16 | — |
| Valley Los Banos Community Los Banos |
Public | 15.4 | 160 | +23.1% |
| San Luis High (Continuation) Los Banos |
Public | 16.0 | 82 | -8.9% |