Center High

Center High is a heavily attended secondary school in Antelope, California, run under Center Joint Unified. The school enrolls 1,312 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 57% above the state mean of about 838.

Center Joint Unified comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,593 students; Center High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Center High logs that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Center High logs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at Center High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Center High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.2%.

In the surrounding community, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Center High is one.

The closest other public school is McClellan High (Continuation), roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Center High comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 1,283 students in 2018 compared to 1,312 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 43% to 34%.

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