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Middle · Regular · Grades 7 to 8

La Cumbre Junior High, Santa Barbara, CA

CEP schoolLa Cumbre Junior High is a public middle school in Santa Barbara, part of Santa Barbara Unified. It enrolled 426 students in 2024-25, with 17.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
426
Teachers (FTE)
24.0
Students per teacher
17.8
Grades
7 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.1 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.

This school17.8
District18.9
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
2255 Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93101
County
Santa Barbara County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
060141406024
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
300
Reduced-price lunch
60
Free or reduced-price lunch
36084.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
174Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

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 middle schools in Santa Barbara Unified

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.