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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Options Secondary

Chula Vista, California

NCES ID
063864007709
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Options Secondary is a public high school in Chula Vista, California, run by Sweetwater Union High. It enrols 79 students — the 89193rd 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

79students

89193rd nationally, tied with 84

Teachers

10.0FTE

83266th nationally, tied with 1,383

Students per teacher

7.9students

3888th nationally, tied with 136

Free or reduced-price lunch

63.3%percent

37375th nationally, tied with 98

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 Sweetwater 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Eastlake High2,783 students
  2. 2Sweetwater High2,679 students
  3. 3Otay Ranch Senior High2,491 students
  4. 4Olympian High2,341 students
  5. 5San Ysidro High2,316 students
  6. 6Bonita Vista Senior High2,140 students
  7. 7Chula Vista Senior High2,053 students
  8. 8Hilltop Senior High1,885 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−83.3%
  • Teachers−52.4%
  • Students per teacher−64.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−6.8%
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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.