Don’t kid yourself about the diversity. I will give you an amen on the high school and it’s academic perfomance, with an API well over 800 it is one of the best performing public schools you can send your kids to. But this thread started with a desire to find racial and socioeconomic diversity in a school that the original poster was looking for. If that truly is what she wants, she may feel good about hearing things are diverse and be able to rationalize her idealism but you really need to look at the facts. Taking westview high since it was mentioned I analyzed the data. Look at the numbers, this school does well for a variety of reasons but it benefits from socioeconomic advantage and it does not mirror the county demographics. Facts are facts, it is almost exclusively a white and asian school in a county that is not. African American and Hispanic 15-17 year olds make up half of the 15-17 year olds in San Diego County, yet combined they make up less than 10% of the student population at this school and most of the other Poway Schools. Only 89 students are considered poor (read free lunch program) a comparison of Chula Vista High 1163 of the 1894 students were considered poor which is 10x the percentage of this school. The stats below pulled from the state and county websites. If the question here was can I send my kid to school with rich white and asian kids, then you found it, but that was not her question. I don’t know if it is possible to find what she is looking for but this isn’t it.
Westview high’s 1584 students that took the 2006 API according to the state department of education
Over 1300 of those students are white, asian or filipino.
African American (not of Hispanic origin) 46
American Indian or Alaska Native 4
Asian 331
Filipino 153
Hispanic or Latino 109
Pacific Islander 12
White (not of Hispanic origin) 881
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged 89
Countywide stats from SANDAG by race for 15-17 year olds
African American 8,421
American Indian 716
Asian, pac islander and filipino combined 11,886
white 53,916
hispanic 51,214
