La Jolla High

La Jolla High is a four-year high school of medium-sized scale in La Jolla, California, operated by San Diego Unified, instructing 1,174 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 40% above the state mean of about 838.

San Diego Unified runs 174 schools in total, collectively educating 94,828 students. La Jolla High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, La Jolla High shows that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 25% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 8% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, La Jolla High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), La Jolla High is one campus in the mix.

Muirlands Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around La Jolla High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Jolla High ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 70.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. La Jolla High's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 1,505 (now 1,174). The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 31% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

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