Menlo-Atherton High
Atherton · CA · Sequoia Union High · Public
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Menlo School → Sacred Heart Schools Atherton → Tide Academy → Mid-Peninsula High School → Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford → Wherry Academy → Open Mind School → Everest Public High →📋 At a glance
- 📚 22 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 7 calculus classes · 14 physics · 30 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 73th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 86th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 89% (Bottom 44% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Menlo-Atherton High compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 73th percentile nationally with 22 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Menlo School, Sacred Heart Schools Atherton, Tide Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
73th percentile nationally
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 · 2020-2186th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: 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 44% 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
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -1.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 2,158 students:
≈ 101 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $29,135 per student in district revenue, the 101 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,942,635/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menlo School Atherton |
Private | 1.1 | 818 | +3.0% |
| Sacred Heart Schools Atherton Atherton |
Private | 1.4 | 1,118 | +1.3% |
| Tide Academy Menlo Park |
Public | 1.4 | 212 | +12.8% |
| Mid-Peninsula High School Menlo Park |
Private | 1.6 | 137 | +24.5% |
| Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford Palo Alto |
Public | 1.8 | 6 | — |
| Wherry Academy Redwood City |
Private | 1.8 | 6 | — |
| Open Mind School Menlo Park |
Private | 1.8 | 21 | — |
| Everest Public High Redwood City |
Public · charter | 1.8 | 224 | -30.4% |