Public school / Other
North Monterey County Center for Independent Study
Salinas, California
- NCES ID
- 062759009412
- District
- North Monterey County Unified
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
North Monterey County Center for Independent Study is a public other school in Salinas, California, run by North Monterey County Unified. It enrols 168 students — the 81142nd 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
168
Teachers
6.0
Students per teacher
28.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.2%
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 North Monterey County 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.
- 1North Monterey County High1,286 students
- 2North Monterey County Middle643 students
- 3Prunedale Elementary640 students
- 4Castroville Elementary611 students
- 5Elkhorn Elementary569 students
- 6Echo Valley Elementary537 students
- 7North Monterey County Center for Independent Study168 students
- 8Central Bay High (Continuation)28 students
- Enrollment−64.6%
- Teachers−71.4%
- Students per teacher+26.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+7.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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