Original Research by School Decision on Entrepreneur High District
Entrepreneur High District is a single-school charter operation serving grades nine through twelve in Highland. The district operates only Entrepreneur High School, a newer public charter authorized by San Bernardino City Unified that began enrolling students in the 2021-2022 school year. This is not a traditional comprehensive high school. Instead, it is built around an entrepreneurship-infused, college-prep curriculum designed to have students develop and launch businesses while preparing for competitive college admission.
The enrollment is small, with roughly an equal distribution across the four high school grades. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial share who are Black, and smaller representations of other racial and ethnic groups. Data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education, and English learner status were not provided, so a parent would want to ask the school directly about the economic and language composition of the school community.
State assessment data and graduation rates were not available for this district, so comparative academic proficiency cannot be shown here. The school is new enough that longer-term outcome patterns may not yet be fully established. A parent interested in whether students are meeting college-prep benchmarks or how cohorts progress through the four-year pathway should ask the school for enrollment, course completion, and college-acceptance data directly.
One area that does appear in the county comparison stands out: chronic absenteeism is markedly high. The district sits in the bottom quartile among San Bernardino County's districts on this measure. This reflects a real challenge in student attendance, and a parent considering this school should understand that absenteeism may be affecting learning continuity and ask what supports the school has in place to address it.
The per-pupil spending is in the upper range for the county, which may reflect the specialized curriculum and smaller scale of the operation, or choices the school has made in staffing and program investment. This is a neutral point of context; it does not by itself indicate outcome strength or weakness.
The dual-enrollment partnership with San Bernardino Valley College and Chaffey College is a concrete strength. Students can earn transferable college credit while in high school, with those courses weighted in their GPA. For families, this is a pathway that can lower future college costs and strengthen transcripts for CSU and UC applications, a tangible academic benefit of the school's model.
For a family, this school represents a deliberate, nontraditional choice. It is a tuition-free public option, newly established, with an explicit focus on entrepreneurship and college preparation rather than the structure of a traditional high school. That model appeals to some students and families; others prefer the breadth, sports programs, and conventional pathway of a comprehensive high school. The high absenteeism rate is a legitimate concern that deserves direct inquiry. Beyond that, whether this school is the right fit depends on whether the entrepreneurship curriculum, the college-dual-enrollment pathway, and the school's specific culture and approach align with a student's interests and your family's educational goals.
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