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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Santa Cruz County Community

Santa Cruz, California

NCES ID
069103610668
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Santa Cruz County Community is a public high school in Santa Cruz, California, run by Santa Cruz County Office of Education. It enrols 741 students — the 17077th 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

741students

17077th nationally, tied with 53

Teachers

30.0FTE

41832nd nationally, tied with 2,155

Students per teacher

24.7students

89245th nationally, tied with 153

Free or reduced-price lunch

46.7%percent

53878th nationally, tied with 115

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 Santa Cruz County Office of Education

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. 1Santa Cruz County Community741 students
  2. 2Santa Cruz County Career Advancement Charter163 students
  3. 3Santa Cruz County Special Education100 students
  4. 4Santa Cruz County Court65 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+56.3%
  • Teachers+42.9%
  • Students per teacher+11.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−31.2%
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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.