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High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12

Foothills High, San Marcos, CA

Foothills High is a public high school in San Marcos, part of San Marcos Unified. It enrolled 101 students in 2024-25, with 20.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
101
Teachers (FTE)
5.0
Students per teacher
20.2
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 3.3 lower than the district figure of 23.5. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school20.2
District23.5
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
158 Cassou Rd., San Marcos, CA 92069
County
San Diego County
Level
High
Type
Alternative
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
063488009629
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
48
Reduced-price lunch
10
Free or reduced-price lunch
5857.4% 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 San Marcos Unified

High schools elsewhere in San Marcos

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.