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Pioneer High (Continuation) · Gustine

Pioneer High (Continuation): The state doesn't publish enough data to score this school fairly.

Pioneer High (Continuation) is a high school in Gustine. The state doesn't publish enough data to score it fairly — so we won't. Here's what we can show.

Continuation school — a small alternative high school designed for students at risk of not graduating. Focuses on credit recovery and flexible scheduling. Test scores and college-readiness rates are not directly comparable to comprehensive high schools.

No Scope Score available

California doesn't publicly report per-grade test results when fewer than 11 students are tested in a grade — a privacy protection for small schools. With 18 students total, this school likely falls below that threshold in most tested grades. We can't compute a Scope Score without that data.

The seven-year arc

Percentile among 2,160 high schools statewide

Has stayed near the 9th percentile since 2019.

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ELARedMathRed

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 4% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022
Grade 117%8%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022
Grade 110%0%
Worth a school visit

With little published data, a visit does the heavy lifting: ask about class sizes, teacher tenure, and where last year's students went next.

  • Ask about typical class sizes and the student-teacher ratio.
  • Ask how long teachers have stayed at the school.
  • Ask where recent graduates or transfers went next.
  • Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom, and watch how a lesson actually runs.

Where the path goes

The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.

K-12 Feeder Path
High School
Pioneer High (Continuation)
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This school

Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Teaching staff1 teachers
Avg. experience17.0 years
Fully credentialed0%
Salary Schedule
Teacher salary schedule$59,677 – $112,214
Principal salary$153,378 – $167,522
Superintendent salary$214,264

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Course Breadth
AP courses offered0

What gets spent here

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $6,495, CA average $14,815$6,495 · spent at this school

These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.

Federal share$31 per student

$31 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

District current expense · FY 2024–25$21,251 per student

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction56%
Instruction support12%
Student services12%
Administration9%
Buildings & maintenance11%
Other1%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$13,082 per pupil
2019$12,221 per pupil
2018$12,810 per pupil
2017$11,500 per pupil
2016$11,060 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood it serves

Hispanic94.4%
District 87.6% · CA 56.1%
Other5.6%
District 3.6% · CA 9.0%
Low IncomeFree/reduced lunch eligible 44.4% (19pp below CA avg)
Neighborhood — American Community Survey
Median income$66K · CA $85K
Median home value$444K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+8% · CA 35%
ZIP population9,506
Median age41 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Worth Knowing

At 18 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).

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