Lompoc High

Lompoc High is a senior high of substantial scale in Lompoc, California, one of the schools within Lompoc Unified, teacheing 1,593 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 90% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Lompoc Unified runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 8,896 students. Lompoc High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lompoc High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder breaks down as 9% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Barbara County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Santa Barbara County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lompoc High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -11.3 points.

In the broader community, Santa Barbara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $98,161 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lompoc High is one of 129 public schools in Santa Barbara County (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students).

The closest other public school is Dr Bob Forinash Community Day, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lompoc High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 22.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 6%: 1,502 students in 2018 compared to 1,593 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 78% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.