Zoe Barnum High

Zoe Barnum High is a micro-enrollment senior high in Eureka, California, part of Eureka City Schools. The school serves 67 students in grades 10 through 12. That puts it 92% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Eureka City Schools runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,462 students. Zoe Barnum High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Zoe Barnum High reports that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 7% Native American, 3% Black. By comparison, Humboldt County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Zoe Barnum High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Humboldt County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Humboldt County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,160 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Zoe Barnum High is one of 92 public schools in Humboldt County (combined enrollment of about 17,319 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pacific View Charter 2.0, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Zoe Barnum High.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Zoe Barnum High's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 72 (now 67). White enrollment moved from 50% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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