Saratoga High

Saratoga High, a moderately sized secondary school in Saratoga, California, one of the schools within Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High, works with 1,161 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 39% bigger than typical.

Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 3,075 students; Saratoga High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Saratoga High reports that the largest single group is Asian, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 16% White, 15% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Saratoga High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 3% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, Saratoga High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.5%; this one delivers 86.4%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Saratoga High is one.

Foothill Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Saratoga High comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 82.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 1,354 students in 2018 compared to 1,161 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 26% to 16% over that span.

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