Community Profile
Cupertino (Homestead High) & Baldwin Park (Baldwin Hills)For our community profile presentation, we investigated Homestead High School in Cupertino, and Baldwin Park High School in Baldwin Hills, California. Cupertino is located about 40 miles south of San Francisco, and roughly 10 miles north of San Jose, in the Northern California Bay Area. Cupertino is nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has experienced an income boom among working professionals in the last decade and a half, due to the "dot-com" phenomenon. There are 40,263 residents of Cupertino; 20,106 are men, 20,157 are women, according to a 1999 survey. Out of the 40.2 thousand residents, 10,463 are under 21years of age, 26,250 are between the ages of 22 and 65, and 3,550 are over 65 years old. In terms of languages spoken in Cupertino, 27,752 speak only English, and just 135 speak only Spanish. Cupertino also hosts a large Asian/Pacific Islander population; 934 such residents speak in their respective native tongue. Baldwin Hills is located in West Los Angeles, between Culver City and Inglewood. There are 69,330 total residents in Baldwin Hills, 34,997 are men, and 34,333 are women. The gender breakdown between the two cities is roughly fifty-f
Things such as internet, class size, and money for extra curricular activities all show use of money/funding. Another key difference between the two communities is the educational attainment breakdown. It is extremely obvious, when comparing two schools, why schools within richer neighborhoods do better than in poor. 6, and 32 students per classroom in English, Math, Social Science, and Science respectively. Only 23% of the teachers at Baldwin Park are Hispanic/Latino, the majority (67%) are white. The difference in numbers for classes at Homestead High School are all under 1 student per classroom less than the numbers at Baldwin Park, except for English which averages 26. 3%) are Hispanic/Latino, 123 are Asian/Pacific Islander, and 126 are white, among other groups. Keep in mind that there is almost 30,000 more people residing in Baldwin Hills than there are in Cupertino. A couple key differences between the two schools lie in their dropout rate and access to the internet. These numbers similarly reflect the community population. Asians and Pacific Islanders also have a strong contingent in Cupertino. Obviously, the success or failure of the community is determined by those who live there; therefore if you have a high dropout rate for the local public schools, it is hard for a community to flourish with an upstanding working population. The discrepancy between the two areas can be attributed largely to the economic strength of the Silicon Valley, which, we believe, also has a correlation with resident age.
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