West Mall Alternative School

Atascadero, CA 93422-1933

Phone: (805) 462-4238
Fax: (805) 462-4396
District: Atascadero Unified

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public • Grades K-12 • 159 students

Atascadero's West Mall Alternative School serves grades K-12 in the Atascadero Unified district.

West Mall Alternative School is a public school located in Atascadero, CA. 159 students attend West Mall Alternative School.

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Test Scores 5/10 The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) data from California Department of Education, and using 2025 California Science Test data from California Department of Education.
College Readiness 8/10 The College Readiness Rating uses this high school's graduation rates, college entrance exam participation and performance, or AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment participation to determine how well schools are preparing students for success in college and beyond. The College Readiness Rating was created using 2019 SAT percent college ready data from California Department of Education, using 2019 Average ACT score data from California Department of Education, using 2019 ACT percent college ready data from California Department of Education, using the following data from the 2021 Civil Rights Data Collection: percentage of students enrolled in IB, AP or Dual Enrollment classes in grades 9-12, using 2025 4-year high school graduation rate data from California Department of Education, using 2025 Percent of students who meet UC/CSU entrance requirements data from California Department of Education, and using 2025 demographic data from California Department of Education.

Posted: May 6, 2016

Recently the West Mall Independent Studies changed curriculum to an online program called Apex. It is now one of the worst schooling programs I've ever seen or heard of. The program itself has typos everywhere, and frequently has errors with answers where it will mark you incorrect and then tell you the correct answer was the one you chose.
This year none of the students were allowed to have Winter Break or Spring Break because "Apex couldn't be scheduled around the breaks". If a student wanted to have an actual break, they would have had to triple their work load the few weeks before.
If a student can't finish an assignment, their entire schooling gets held hostage until they can complete it, resulting in insane stress and dozens of "late assignments". Dropping an assignment for a lower grade is not an option.
The result is that my sister, who gets A's and A+'s in her public school classes, is getting C's in her home school classes.

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