Encina High

Located at 1400 Bell St., in Sacramento, California, Encina High is a moderately sized high school that works with 766 students (grades 9 through 12), run under San Juan Unified.

San Juan Unified comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 39,171 students; Encina High is among them.

On demographics, Encina High lists that the most-represented group is Asian (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Hispanic, 19% White, 14% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Encina High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 27.2%; Encina High posts 5.2%, -22.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Encina High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Greer Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Encina High comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 1,003 students in 2018 compared to 766 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 14% to 34%.

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