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-fifty, although Baldwin Hills has almost 30,000 more people. Compared to Cupertino, Baldwin Park is considerably younger, 29,771 residents are under 21 years old, 37,150 are between the ages of 22 and 65 years old, and only 2,409 are over 65 years old. In terms of languages spoken, 18,700 Baldwin Hills residents speak English only, and 11,221 speak Spanish only. There are almost 100 times as many Spanish speakers in Baldwin Hills than there are in Cupertino.
             In terms of housing values, the majority (more than half) of Cupertino homes are worth between $300,000 and $500,000, with about a third worth more than $500,000. Those two demographic categories are represented by mere slivers in Baldwin Hill...