High · Alternative · Grades 9 to 12
IDEA Center, El Cajon, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 127
- Teachers (FTE)
- 16.0
- Students per teacher
- 7.9
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 14.1 lower than the district figure of 22.0. 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
- 1600 North Cuyamaca St., El Cajon, CA 92020
- Phone
- (619)956-4332
- District
- Grossmont Union High
- County
- San Diego County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 061623013915
School meals
- Free lunch
- 50
- Reduced-price lunch
- 33
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 8365.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 50Students 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 Grossmont Union High
- Granite Hills High 2,331 students
- Grossmont High 2,172 students
- El Capitan High 1,810 students
- Valhalla High 1,728 students
- El Cajon Valley High 1,701 students
- West Hills High 1,624 students
- Santana High 1,621 students
- Monte Vista High 1,543 students
- Mount Miguel High 1,539 students
- MERIT Academy 68 students
- Chaparral High 45 students
- Grossmont Middle College High 37 students
High schools elsewhere in El Cajon
- Altus Schools East County Altus Schools East County District
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.