Santa Barbara Junior High

Set in Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Junior High is a tight-knit middle-grades school, one of the schools within Santa Barbara Unified. It hosts 512 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Santa Barbara Junior High sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 20 schools in Santa Barbara Unified (12,247 students total), Santa Barbara Junior High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Santa Barbara Junior High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%); the rest comes out to 13% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Barbara County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Barbara County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Santa Barbara Junior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.3%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Santa Barbara County shows the typical household earns roughly $98,161 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Santa Barbara County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), Santa Barbara Junior High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Santa Barbara Senior High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Santa Barbara Junior High. On composite proficiency, Santa Barbara Junior High comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Santa Barbara Junior High has shrank 36%, going from 800 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 64% to 83%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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