Red Bluff High

Red Bluff High operates as a roomy senior high in Red Bluff, California, run under Red Bluff Joint Union High. Current enrollment sits at 1,586 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Red Bluff High sits 89% above that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Red Bluff Joint Union High (1,690 students total), Red Bluff High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Red Bluff High logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Tehama County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Red Bluff High has 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Red Bluff High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Tehama County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,784 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tehama County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students), of which Red Bluff High is one.

The closest other public school is Tehama eLearning Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Red Bluff High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Red Bluff High at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 28.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Red Bluff High's enrollment has expanded 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,536 (now 1,586). White enrollment moved from 61% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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