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Lighthouse Community Charter High is a public charter high school in Oakland, California, serving 307 students in grades 9-12. The school has a diverse student population, with a majority Hispanic enrollment (86.32% in 2022-2023), and is part of the Lighthouse Community Charter High District, which is ranked 786 out of 1,560 districts in the state.
Lighthouse Community Charter High stands out for its relatively high graduation rates, which reached 92.4% in 2022-2023 and 97.2% in 2021-2022, significantly outpacing nearby public high schools like Fremont High (76.0%) and Castlemont High (61.3%). The school also has a lower dropout rate of 6.3% in 2022-2023, compared to higher rates at Fremont High (21.3%) and Castlemont High (30.4%). However, Lighthouse Community Charter High struggles with a higher chronic absenteeism rate of 32.5%, which is still lower than Fremont High (56.7%) and Castlemont High (74.4%), but higher than the nearby Aspire Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Academy (26.3%).
Academically, Lighthouse Community Charter High outperforms the state and nearby schools in English Language Arts/Literacy, with 57.53% of 11th-grade students proficient or better in 2022-2023, compared to the state average of 55.41%. However, the school struggles in mathematics, with only 1.37% of 11th-grade students proficient or better, significantly lower than the state average of 27.36%. The school's performance is particularly strong in supporting its English Language Learner (ELL) students, ranking in the top 80 out of 1,315 California high schools for this subgroup in 2022-2023. But the school faces potential racial achievement gaps, as Hispanic students at Lighthouse Community Charter High ranked 909 out of 2,132 California high schools, while the overall school ranking was 1,202 out of 2,335.
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