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Public school / High

Ernest Righetti High

Santa Maria, California

NCES ID
063567006083
District
Santa Maria Joint Union High
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Ernest Righetti High is a public high school in Santa Maria, California, run by Santa Maria Joint Union High. It enrols 2,494 students — the 777th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.

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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

2,494students

777th nationally

Teachers

112.0FTE

1770th nationally, tied with 66

Students per teacher

22.3students

84815th nationally, tied with 235

Free or reduced-price lunch

63.5%percent

37197th nationally, tied with 87

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.

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Within Santa Maria Joint 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Pioneer Valley High3,220 students
  2. 2Santa Maria High3,196 students
  3. 3Ernest Righetti High2,494 students
  4. 4Delta High341 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: California median across 10,418 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+426.2%
  • Teachers+433.3%
  • Students per teacher+0.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−6.5%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.