A CCS myth debunked

[colhenrylives]

For years, the narrative surrounding the football program at Half Moon Bay has been a sort of David vs. Goliath tale. The Cougars were said to be an exceptionally tiny entity surrounded by much larger foes, by far the smallest football-playing public school in the PAL. According to the CCS website, that really isn't the case anymore. The official 2019-20 enrollment numbers are telling. Half Moon Bay is listed at 1,045 students. Ten miles north in Pacifica, Terra Nova is reported to have just 812 pupils. Maybe it's past time to adjust our thinking.

 

[Breen1234]

The numbers are the numbers but HMB is now a majority Hispanic school. Unfortunately not nearly enough of them play football. This is the main reason HMB fields a 25 man Varsity squad. They typically dress 23 or less on game day. They get zero transfer help and lose plenty of their best kids to Parochial schools over the hill. If you call transfers kids who return after they are tired of commuting then we do get a couple here and there.(local kids)
Terra Nova on the other hand has a school down the road that takes kids who do not care about football and are not as academically motivated. Terra Nova also draws football players from SF,Daly City, San Bruno and much more. Typically when Jefferson is down Terra Nova is up and vice versa. Their star running back was a Riordan transfer and I don't believe he lives in Pacifica. This has been the case more often than not. Terra Nova is open enrollment and HMB is not.
I am not complaining because our relationship with Terra Nova is a good one. It is a true rivalry and HMB comes out on the bottom more often than they win but it just makes it that much more enjoyable to win.
HMB wins or loses with true blue local kids and I bet you would be hard pressed to find another school in the Peninsula that can say that.

 

[Rmbr26]

colhenry, I had looked up the SM Co. student bodies awhile back in a post so was curious as to how some have changed [the info I found on some schools was several years old at best]. Could you share which link you used for CCS I am looking up via Wikipedia, but coming up with different figures than you. Clicking on the schools simply redirects me to the Wikipedia page for each school, thx -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIF_Central_Coast_Section

Here is a copy of my post prior to the Serra-HMB game: [just saw I missed on Terra Nova whom I always thought was a larger school than HMB - they certainly had a larger roster for the rival game between them this past season].

Here are the enrollments for both Serra & HMB along with the other WCAL schools and some of the publics most notably in the mid-peninsula where Serra is in close proximity to 6 of them [Mills, Burlingame, San Mateo, Aragon, Hillsdale & Carlmont].

Half Moon Bay = 995 students co-ed
Serra = 830 students all boys

Others: [using last published figures]
WCAL & SHP:
SHP = 615 co-ed
Riordan = 710 all boys
SHC = 1314 co-ed
S.I. = 1508 co-ed
VC = 1607 co-ed
Bells = 1625 all boys
Mitty = 1748 co-ed
SF = 1768 co-ed

Publics:
Mills = 1240
Burlingame = 1425
San Mateo = 1670
Aragon = 1555
Hillsdale = 1385
Carlmont = 2152
Sequoia = 2182
Menlo-Atherton = 2401
Capuchino = 1177
SSF = 1366

 

[FBAddict]

The numbers are the numbers but HMB is now a majority Hispanic school. Unfortunately not nearly enough of them play football.

Several schools are going through this transition. Silver Creek used to have a pretty decent FB program. But the demographics have changed significantly toward Asian in the last 20 years.

 

[colhenrylives]

colhenry, I had looked up the SM Co. student bodies awhile back in a post so was curious as to how some have changed [the info I found on some schools was several years old at best]. Could you share which link you used for CCS I am looking up via Wikipedia, but coming up with different figures than you. Clicking on the schools simply redirects me to the Wikipedia page for each school, thx -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIF_Central_Coast_Section

Here is a copy of my post prior to the Serra-HMB game: [just saw I missed on Terra Nova whom I always thought was a larger school than HMB - they certainly had a larger roster for the rival game between them this past season].

Here are the enrollments for both Serra & HMB along with the other WCAL schools and some of the publics most notably in the mid-peninsula where Serra is in close proximity to 6 of them [Mills, Burlingame, San Mateo, Aragon, Hillsdale & Carlmont].

Half Moon Bay = 995 students co-ed
Serra = 830 students all boys

Others: [using last published figures]
WCAL & SHP:
SHP = 615 co-ed
Riordan = 710 all boys
SHC = 1314 co-ed
S.I. = 1508 co-ed
VC = 1607 co-ed
Bells = 1625 all boys
Mitty = 1748 co-ed
SF = 1768 co-ed

Publics:
Mills = 1240
Burlingame = 1425
San Mateo = 1670
Aragon = 1555
Hillsdale = 1385
Carlmont = 2152
Sequoia = 2182
Menlo-Atherton = 2401
Capuchino = 1177
SSF = 1366

The CCS website has all of the official state enrollment numbers for all schools for 2019-20. Look for "CBED" numbers and all of them pop up.

 

[FBAddict]

colhenry, I had looked up the SM Co. student bodies awhile back in a post so was curious as to how some have changed [the info I found on some schools was several years old at best]. Could you share which link you used for CCS I am looking up via Wikipedia, but coming up with different figures than you. Clicking on the schools simply redirects me to the Wikipedia page for each school, thx -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIF_Central_Coast_Section

Here is a copy of my post prior to the Serra-HMB game: [just saw I missed on Terra Nova whom I always thought was a larger school than HMB - they certainly had a larger roster for the rival game between them this past season].

Here are the enrollments for both Serra & HMB along with the other WCAL schools and some of the publics most notably in the mid-peninsula where Serra is in close proximity to 6 of them [Mills, Burlingame, San Mateo, Aragon, Hillsdale & Carlmont].

Half Moon Bay = 995 students co-ed
Serra = 830 students all boys

Others: [using last published figures]
WCAL & SHP:
SHP = 615 co-ed
Riordan = 710 all boys
SHC = 1314 co-ed
S.I. = 1508 co-ed
VC = 1607 co-ed
Bells = 1625 all boys
Mitty = 1748 co-ed
SF = 1768 co-ed

Publics:
Mills = 1240
Burlingame = 1425
San Mateo = 1670
Aragon = 1555
Hillsdale = 1385
Carlmont = 2152
Sequoia = 2182
Menlo-Atherton = 2401
Capuchino = 1177
SSF = 1366

One should use the official 2019-2020 CCS CBEDs for these enrollments. Wiki appears to be outdated. For example, HMB is listed at 1045 students and Serra is listed at 1608 (list footnotes: single gender school / enrollment is doubled).

http://www.cifccs.org/Playoffs/CBEDS/2019-20_CBEDS.pdf

 

[LecheDeMiPalo]

The numbers are the numbers but HMB is now a majority Hispanic school. Unfortunately not nearly enough of them play football. This is the main reason HMB fields a 25 man Varsity squad. They typically dress 23 or less on game day. They get zero transfer help and lose plenty of their best kids to Parochial schools over the hill. If you call transfers kids who return after they are tired of commuting then we do get a couple here and there.(local kids)
Terra Nova on the other hand has a school down the road that takes kids who do not care about football and are not as academically motivated. Terra Nova also draws football players from SF,Daly City, San Bruno and much more. Typically when Jefferson is down Terra Nova is up and vice versa. Their star running back was a Riordan transfer and I don't believe he lives in Pacifica. This has been the case more often than not. Terra Nova is open enrollment and HMB is not.
I am not complaining because our relationship with Terra Nova is a good one. It is a true rivalry and HMB comes out on the bottom more often than they win but it just makes it that much more enjoyable to win.
HMB wins or loses with true blue local kids and I bet you would be hard pressed to find another school in the Peninsula that can say that.

Roughly, how many Half Moon Bay kids would you say were at a Parochial school this past season? Speaking only football players.

 

[Breen1234]

This year I can only think of one but he is the Mike LB for Serra. That is typical as most of the football players that choose to go private are our best athletes.