North High

North High operates as a big senior high in Bakersfield, California, overseen by Kern High. Current enrollment sits at 2,135 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 155% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Kern High runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 42,814 students. North High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, North High lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 29% White, 11% multiracial, 5% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting North High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, North High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, 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%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), North High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wingland Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North High. On composite proficiency, North High comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 17.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. North High's enrollment has climbed 24% since 2018, when it stood at 1,720 (now 2,135). White enrollment moved from 60% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 25.3:1 in 2025.

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