Wasco High

Set in Wasco, California, Wasco High is an expansive senior high, overseen by Wasco Union High. It serves 1,672 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Wasco High sits 100% bigger than that benchmark.

Wasco Union High runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,781 students. Wasco High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Wasco High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%); the rest reads as 3% White. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Wasco High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at Wasco High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kern County (around 76%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wasco High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kern County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Wasco High is one of 279 public schools in Kern County (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students).

The closest other public school is Palm Avenue Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Wasco High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wasco High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.2%.

Wasco High operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Wasco High's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,757 (now 1,672). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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