Stockdale High

Stockdale High is a high school of large scale in Bakersfield, California, overseen by Kern High, caters to 2,398 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 186% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Within Kern High, which oversees 25 schools and 42,814 students, Stockdale High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Stockdale High logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 20% White, 17% Asian, 11% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 57% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly less Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Stockdale High higher than the state norm the norm. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Kern County's rate of about 76%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stockdale High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of -1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kern County) shows that median household income runs about $70,210, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Stockdale High is one campus in the mix.

Earl Warren Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stockdale High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stockdale High ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 2,262 students in 2018 compared to 2,398 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 28% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 28.7:1 in 2018 to 27.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Stockdale High community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.