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Public school / High

Sierra Vista High (Alternative)

Whittier, California

NCES ID
064248000496
District
Whittier Union High
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Sierra Vista High (Alternative) is a public high school in Whittier, California, run by Whittier Union High. It enrols 324 students — the 62263rd 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

324students

62263rd nationally, tied with 138

Teachers

13.0FTE

78940th nationally, tied with 1,474

Students per teacher

24.9students

89542nd nationally, tied with 134

Free or reduced-price lunch

90.1%percent

13649th nationally, tied with 77

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 Whittier 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. 1California High2,504 students
  2. 2La Serna High2,410 students
  3. 3Santa Fe High1,935 students
  4. 4Whittier High1,767 students
  5. 5Pioneer High1,152 students
  6. 6Frontier High (Continuation)476 students
  7. 7Sierra Vista High (Alternative)324 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−31.6%
  • Teachers−38.1%
  • Students per teacher+12.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+32.7%
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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.