Highland High

Highland High is a substantial high school in Bakersfield, California, one of the schools within Kern High. The school instructs 2,530 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 202% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Within Kern High, which oversees 25 schools and 42,814 students, Highland High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Highland High lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder comes out to 15% White, 5% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Highland High reports 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at Highland High qualify 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Highland High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kern County) records that median household earnings sit near $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Highland High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Chipman Junior High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 24.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Highland High's enrollment has grew 19% since 2018, when it stood at 2,128 (now 2,530). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 today.

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