Public school / High
Shafter High
Shafter, California
- NCES ID
- 061954002352
- District
- Kern High
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Shafter High is a public high school in Shafter, California, run by Kern High. It enrols 1,651 students — the 3049th 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
1,651
Teachers
69.0
Students per teacher
23.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
85.2%
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 Kern 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.
- 1Bakersfield High3,004 students
- 2Arvin High2,786 students
- 3Ridgeview High2,688 students
- 4Highland High2,599 students
- 5Golden Valley High2,533 students
- 6East Bakersfield High2,421 students
- 7Independence High2,394 students
- 8Liberty High2,358 students
- Enrollment+248.3%
- Teachers+228.6%
- Students per teacher+8.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+25.5%
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