Public school / Middle
Mission Hill Middle
Santa Cruz, California
- NCES ID
- 063560006065
- District
- Santa Cruz City High
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Mission Hill Middle is a public middle school in Santa Cruz, California, run by Santa Cruz City High. It enrols 544 students — the 32203rd 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
544
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
20.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
32.7%
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 Santa Cruz City 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.
- 1Santa Cruz High1,092 students
- 2Harbor High1,023 students
- 3Soquel High974 students
- 4Mission Hill Middle544 students
- 5Branciforte Middle389 students
- 6Delta Charter116 students
- 7Alternative Family Education108 students
- 8Costanoa Continuation High90 students
- Enrollment+14.8%
- Teachers+28.6%
- Students per teacher−9.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−51.8%
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