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Enrollment
1,122
High
DISTRICT 563 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALBANY CITY UNIFIED·NCES 060186000059
Albany High
603 Key Route Blvd., Albany, CA 94706 · (510) 558-2500 · Alameda County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,122 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of California public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
348 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 269 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 257 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 302 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 294 | 26% |
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Albany City Unified. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
83.0%
CA avg 49.1% . +12.0pp since 2014
Math
73.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +10.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 56.5% | 26.4% | 10.5% | 6.5% |
| Math | 55.0% | 18.0% | 11.5% | 15.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 73.0% |
| 2023-24 | 83.9% | 69.4% |
| 2022-23 | 84.2% | 67.5% |
| 2021-22 | 79.7% | 71.7% |
| 2020-21 | 91.2% | 83.5% |
| 2018-19 | 80.8% | 70.8% |
| 2017-18 | 74.2% | 62.8% |
| 2016-17 | 83.3% | 74.3% |
| 2015-16 | 83.0% | 75.0% |
| 2014-15 | 71.0% | 63.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
77.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Albany High
Albany High's state test result (77.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albany High this school | 1,122 | 31.0% | 77.3% |
| Alameda High Alameda | 1,868 | 30.4% | 66.5% |
| Yorba Linda High Yorba Linda | 1,631 | 28.0% | 64.0% |
| West Park High Roseville | 2,079 | 30.1% | 56.4% |
| Legacy Magnet Academy Tustin | 964 | 32.5% | 78.5% |
| West High Torrance | 1,775 | 24.7% | 66.2% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Albany High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Alameda County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.3% | #38 of 1,052 | #5 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #32 of 1,056 ▲ 4 | #4 of 35 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #66 of 1,056 ▼ 5 | #6 of 35 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.3pp | #506 of 1,044 | #9 of 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,122 | #722 of 2,093 | #26 of 85 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #387 of 1,352 | #22 of 55 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.0% | #23 of 1,351 | #5 of 55 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.0% | #1,393 of 1,575 | #55 of 68 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.6% | #780 of 802 | #26 of 27 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,122
-60 (-5%) vs 2020
+41% since 1990-91, when it was 793
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 20.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,122 | 59.5 | 18.9:1 | 31% (348) |
| 2023-24 | 1,117 | 61.4 | 18.2:1 | 30% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 1,151 | 63.2 | 18.2:1 | 26% (303) |
| 2020-21 | 1,182 | 58 | 20.4:1 | 15% (181) |
| 2017-18 | 1,129 | 56.5 | 20.0:1 | 21% (232) |
| 2015-16 | 1,210 | 62 | 19.5:1 | 17% (206) |
| 2010-11 | 1,209 | N/A | N/A | 18% (221) |
| 2000-01 | 864 | 38 | 22.7:1 | 10% (88) |
| 1990-91 | 793 | 37 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Albany High.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (1,129 to 1,122); teachers up 5% (56.5 to 59.5).
About Albany High
Albany High is the name of a mid-sized high school in Albany, California. Enrollment stands at 1,122 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That is 34% bigger than the average of about 838 students for high schools in California.
Albany High belongs to Albany City Unified, a district of 6 schools and 3,684 students.
The largest group at Albany High is Asian students, at 33%. Other students are 28% White, 17% multiracial, 16% Hispanic, and 4% Black. Census estimates put Alameda County at about 33% Asian, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for Albany High is 75%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 59.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 18.9:1. The 18.2:1 average for high schools in California is close to this figure. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 31%. Across public schools in Alameda County, the average is 49%.
Among California public high schools, Albany High outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Albany High is 61.4%. It actually posts 77.3%, which is 16.0 points higher and in the top 10% of California schools.
In Alameda County, the median household earns about $129,367 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Across Alameda County, 394 public schools serve about 210,511 students.
MacGregor High (Continuation) is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Albany High at 1st of 8.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 1,122, compared with 1,182 in 2020-21. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (18.9:1) than in 2020-21 (20.4:1).
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Alameda County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,649,473
Census ACS
Median income
$129,367
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
394
210,511 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Albany City Unified
- Albany MiddleMiddle · 911 students
- Ocean View ElementaryElementary · 563 students
- Cornell ElementaryElementary · 560 students
- Marin ElementaryElementary · 524 students
- MacGregor High (Continuation)High · 4 students
Other schools in Albany
- Albany MiddleMiddle · 911 students
- Ocean View ElementaryElementary · 563 students
- Cornell ElementaryElementary · 560 students
- Marin ElementaryElementary · 524 students
- MacGregor High (Continuation)High · 4 students
Other Albany High schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Albany High. Albany High is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- ALBANY HIGH SCHOOLALBANY, NY · 2,937 students
- Albany High SchoolAlbany, LA · 534 students
- ALBANY HIGHALBANY, MO · 130 students
- Albany HighAlbany, WI · 75 students
Nearby schools
- MacGregor High (Continuation)0.0 mi · 4
- Albany Middle0.2 mi · 911
- Harding Elementary0.5 mi · 481
- Cornell Elementary0.5 mi · 560
- Marin Elementary0.6 mi · 524
- Thousand Oaks Elementary0.7 mi · 337
Frequently asked questions
About Albany HighWhat is the total enrollment at Albany High?
Albany High enrolls approximately 1,122 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Albany High serve?
Albany High serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Albany High?
Approximately 18.9:1 students per teacher at Albany High.
What is the student diversity at Albany High?
Student demographics at Albany High are roughly 28% White, 16% Hispanic, 4% Black, 33% Asian, 17% Two or more.
What district is Albany High in?
Albany High is part of Albany City Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.