High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Arcata High, Arcata, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,007
- Teachers (FTE)
- 52.0
- Students per teacher
- 19.4
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 1.5 higher than the district figure of 17.9. 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
- 1720 M St., Arcata, CA 95521
- Phone
- (707)825-2400
- District
- Northern Humboldt Union High
- County
- Humboldt County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- NCES school ID
- 060303000238
School meals
- Free lunch
- 405
- Reduced-price lunch
- 1
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 40640.3% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 381Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
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 Northern Humboldt Union High
- McKinleyville High 566 students
- Mad River High (Continuation) 28 students
- Pacific Coast High (Continuation) 24 students
High schools elsewhere in Arcata
- Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy District
- Six Rivers Charter High Six Rivers Charter High District
- Arcata Educational Resource Center Humboldt County Office of Education
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.