San Marino High
San Marino · CA · San Marino Unified · Public
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Aveson Global Leadership Academy → Rose City High (Continuation) → CIS Academy → Learning Works → Options For Youth - Duarte Inc → Del Mar High → Polytechnic School → Options for Youth San Gabriel →📋 At a glance
- 📚 13 AP courses offered — Elite
- 🔢 3 calculus classes · 7 physics · 13 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 82th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 69th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 96% (82th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How San Marino High compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 18% nationally with 13 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: Aveson Global Leadership Academy, Rose City High (Continuation), CIS 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
82th 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 · 2020-2169th 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?
82th percentile nationally
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
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
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 +0.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 886 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $17,733 per student in district revenue, the 29 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $514,257/year in additional funding.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aveson Global Leadership Academy Pasadena |
Public · charter | 1.5 | 102 | -20.9% |
| Rose City High (Continuation) Pasadena |
Public | 1.5 | 113 | -35.4% |
| CIS Academy Pasadena |
Public | 1.5 | 179 | +24.3% |
| Learning Works Pasadena |
Public · charter | 1.6 | 200 | -3.8% |
| Options For Youth - Duarte Inc Pasadena |
Public · charter | 1.6 | 3,350 | +266.5% |
| Del Mar High San Gabriel |
Public | 1.8 | 36 | — |
| Polytechnic School Pasadena |
Private | 1.8 | 871 | +1.5% |
| Options for Youth San Gabriel San Gabriel |
Public · charter | 1.9 | 196 | -36.2% |