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Public school / High

Mira Costa High

Manhattan Beach, California

NCES ID
060002506328
District
Manhattan Beach Unified
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Mira Costa High is a public high school in Manhattan Beach, California, run by Manhattan Beach Unified. It enrols 2,497 students — the 774th 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

2,497students

774th nationally

Teachers

107.0FTE

2063rd nationally, tied with 55

Students per teacher

23.3students

86871st nationally, tied with 210

Free or reduced-price lunch

6.1%percent

84848th nationally, tied with 34

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 Manhattan Beach Unified

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. 1Mira Costa High2,497 students
  2. 2Manhattan Beach Middle1,197 students
  3. 3Pacific Elementary530 students
  4. 4Grand View Elementary510 students
  5. 5Aurelia Pennekamp Elementary482 students
  6. 6Meadows Avenue Elementary371 students
  7. 7Opal Robinson Elementary283 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+426.8%
  • Teachers+409.5%
  • Students per teacher+5.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−91.0%
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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.