Public school / High
El Capitan High
Lakeside, California
- NCES ID
- 061623002019
- District
- Grossmont Union High
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
El Capitan High is a public high school in Lakeside, California, run by Grossmont Union High. It enrols 1,825 students — the 2376th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,825
Teachers
80.0
Students per teacher
22.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
52.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Grossmont Union High
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Granite Hills High2,398 students
- 2Grossmont High2,175 students
- 3Valhalla High1,911 students
- 4El Capitan High1,825 students
- 5Santana High1,736 students
- 6El Cajon Valley High1,652 students
- 7Monte Vista High1,569 students
- 8West Hills High1,532 students
- Enrollment+285.0%
- Teachers+281.0%
- Students per teacher+3.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−23.1%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory