Stockton High

Set in Stockton, California, Stockton High is a very small secondary school, one of the schools within Stockton Unified. It teaches 191 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Stockton High sits 77% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 54 schools in Stockton Unified (33,590 students total), Stockton High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Stockton High records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 7% White, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Stockton High lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.5:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stockton High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 26.2%; this one comes in at 8.5%, -17.6 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Joaquin County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Stockton High is one of 251 public schools in San Joaquin County (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students).

Nearest neighbor: Weber Institute, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Stockton High operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stockton High has declined 11%, going from 215 students in 2018 to 191 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 67% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 43.0:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 in 2025.

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