Public school / High
Palmdale High
Palmdale, California
- NCES ID
- 060282000205
- District
- Antelope Valley Union High
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Palmdale High is a public high school in Palmdale, California, run by Antelope Valley Union High. It enrols 2,443 students — the 841st 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
2,443
Teachers
105.0
Students per teacher
23.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
74.2%
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 Antelope Valley 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.
- 1Quartz Hill High3,066 students
- 2William J. (Pete) Knight High2,793 students
- 3Highland High2,790 students
- 4Eastside High2,650 students
- 5Lancaster High2,642 students
- 6Palmdale High2,443 students
- 7Littlerock High1,565 students
- 8Antelope Valley High1,558 students
- Enrollment+415.4%
- Teachers+400.0%
- Students per teacher+5.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+9.3%
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