Public school / High
Fountain Valley High
Fountain Valley, California
- NCES ID
- 061806002228
- District
- Huntington Beach Union High
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Fountain Valley High is a public high school in Fountain Valley, California, run by Huntington Beach Union High. It enrols 3,180 students — the 240th 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
3,180
Teachers
121.0
Students per teacher
26.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
49.2%
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 Huntington Beach 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.
- 1Fountain Valley High3,180 students
- 2Huntington Beach High2,807 students
- 3Westminster High2,637 students
- 4Marina High2,089 students
- 5Edison High2,034 students
- 6Ocean View High1,258 students
- 7Valley Vista High321 students
- 8Coast High183 students
- Enrollment+570.9%
- Teachers+476.2%
- Students per teacher+19.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−27.5%
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