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Public school / High

Santa Cruz High

Santa Cruz, California

NCES ID
063560006067
District
Santa Cruz City High
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Santa Cruz High is a public high school in Santa Cruz, California, run by Santa Cruz City High. It enrols 1,092 students — the 7137th 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

1,092students

7137th nationally, tied with 15

Teachers

51.0FTE

14318th nationally, tied with 703

Students per teacher

21.4students

82716th nationally, tied with 225

Free or reduced-price lunch

26.2%percent

72579th nationally, tied with 73

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 City 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. 1Santa Cruz High1,092 students
  2. 2Harbor High1,023 students
  3. 3Soquel High974 students
  4. 4Mission Hill Middle544 students
  5. 5Branciforte Middle389 students
  6. 6Delta Charter116 students
  7. 7Alternative Family Education108 students
  8. 8Costanoa Continuation High90 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+130.4%
  • Teachers+142.9%
  • Students per teacher−3.2%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−61.4%
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Where this sits

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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.