Public school / High
Whittier High
Whittier, California
- NCES ID
- 064248006955
- District
- Whittier Union High
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Whittier High is a public high school in Whittier, California, run by Whittier Union High. It enrols 1,767 students — the 2595th 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
1,767
Teachers
81.0
Students per teacher
21.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
85.1%
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 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.
- 1California High2,504 students
- 2La Serna High2,410 students
- 3Santa Fe High1,935 students
- 4Whittier High1,767 students
- 5Pioneer High1,152 students
- 6Frontier High (Continuation)476 students
- 7Sierra Vista High (Alternative)324 students
- Enrollment+272.8%
- Teachers+285.7%
- Students per teacher−1.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+25.3%
Where this sits
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