High · Regular · Grades 5 to 12

Making Waves Academy, Richmond, CA

Charter schoolMaking Waves Academy is a public high school in Richmond, part of Making Waves Academy District. It enrolled 1,078 students in 2024-25, with 19.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 1,078
Teachers (FTE): 56.0
Students per teacher: 19.2
Grades: 5 to 12

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 19.2. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school19.2

District19.2

California21.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 4123 Lakeside Dr., Richmond, CA 94806
Phone: (510)262-1511
District: Making Waves Academy District
County: Contra Costa County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: Yes
Virtual: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 060150212043

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 701
Reduced-price lunch: 160
Free or reduced-price lunch: 86179.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 399Students 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

High schools elsewhere in Richmond

Richmond High West Contra Costa Unified
De Anza High West Contra Costa Unified
John F. Kennedy High West Contra Costa Unified
Summit Public School: Tamalpais Summit Public School: Tamalpais District
Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy Aspire Richmond Ca. College Preparatory Academy District
Leadership Public Schools: Richmond Leadership Public Schools: Richmond District
John Henry High John Henry High District
Greenwood Academy West Contra Costa 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.