Steele Canyon High

Steele Canyon High is a high school with a street address in Spring Valley, California. It had 2,198 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 9 through 12. High schools in California have about 838 students on average; enrollment here is 162% higher.

Steele Canyon High is listed under Steele Canyon High District in federal data.

The share of Hispanic students at Steele Canyon High is 52%, a majority. It is also 31% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of San Diego County is roughly 35% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.

Classroom staffing at Steele Canyon High totals 90.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 24.3:1. The average for high schools in California, 18.2:1, is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Steele Canyon High is about 50%.

The school's county is San Diego County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $106,268 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in San Diego County number 766, with about 467,437 students.

Cajon Valley Home sits about 1.0 miles from Steele Canyon High. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Fringe, or in rural territory close to an urban area. Steele Canyon High is run as a public charter school.

Enrollment at Steele Canyon High was 2,182 in 2020-21 and 2,198 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 26.9:1 in 2020-21, and 24.3:1 in 2024-25.

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