Foothill High

Foothill High is a sizable high school in Bakersfield, California, part of Kern High. The school teaches 2,043 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 144% above the state mean of about 838.

Kern High comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 42,814 students; Foothill High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Foothill High records that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 6% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Foothill High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.2%, the actual is 24.7%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kern County) reports that median household earnings sit near $70,210, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Foothill High is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

Voorhies 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 Foothill High. On composite proficiency, Foothill High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.8%.

Foothill High operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foothill High has grew 3%, going from 1,980 students in 2018 to 2,043 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

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