High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12
Alta Vista Alternative High, Santa Barbara, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 119
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.2
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 5.7 lower than the district figure of 18.9. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 215 East Ortega St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101
- Phone
- (805)966-0883
- District
- Santa Barbara Unified
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 060141412435
School meals
- Free lunch
- 62
- Reduced-price lunch
- 9
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 7159.7% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 37Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Santa Barbara Unified
- Dos Pueblos Senior High 2,149 students
- San Marcos Senior High 1,926 students
- Santa Barbara Senior High 1,924 students
- La Cuesta Continuation High 77 students
High schools elsewhere in Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara County Juvenile Court Santa Barbara County Office of Education
- Santa Barbara County Community Santa Barbara County Office of Education
- Santa Barbara County ROP-South Santa Barbara County ROP
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.