Alisal High

Alisal High is a sizable high school in Salinas, California, part of Salinas Union High. The school serves 2,742 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Alisal High sits 227% bigger than that benchmark.

Salinas Union High comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 15,703 students; Alisal High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Alisal High records that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 62% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Alisal High has 120 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Alisal High higher than the state norm the norm. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Monterey County's rate of about 76%.

With demographic context factored in, Alisal High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Monterey County shows median household earnings sit near $97,230, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Monterey County's 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), Alisal High is one campus in the mix.

Cesar E. Chavez Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alisal High. On composite proficiency, Alisal High comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alisal High has fell 3%, going from 2,838 students in 2018 to 2,742 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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