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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

North Star Academy

Redwood City, California

NCES ID
063213007422
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

North Star Academy is a public middle school in Redwood City, California, run by Redwood City Elementary. It enrols 519 students — the 35047th 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

519students

35047th nationally, tied with 105

Teachers

19.0FTE

67148th nationally, tied with 2,240

Students per teacher

27.3students

91671st nationally, tied with 58

Free or reduced-price lunch

9.4%percent

83495th nationally, tied with 45

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 Redwood City Elementary

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. 1John F. Kennedy Middle706 students
  2. 2Clifford Elementary682 students
  3. 3Hoover Elementary648 students
  4. 4Roy Cloud Elementary633 students
  5. 5Adelante Selby Spanish Immersion545 students
  6. 6Roosevelt Elementary529 students
  7. 7North Star Academy519 students
  8. 8Garfield Elementary515 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+9.5%
  • Teachers−9.5%
  • Students per teacher+23.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−86.2%
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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.