High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Pajaro Valley High, Watsonville, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,293
- Teachers (FTE)
- 59.0
- Students per teacher
- 21.9
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 21.3. 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
- 500 Harkins Slough Rd., Watsonville, CA 95076
- Phone
- (831)728-8102
- District
- Pajaro Valley Unified
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 062949011462
School meals
- Free lunch
- 957
- Reduced-price lunch
- 133
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 1,09084.3% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 635Students 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 high schools in Pajaro Valley Unified
- Watsonville High 2,215 students
- Aptos High 1,274 students
- Renaissance High Continuation 112 students
- Diamond Technology Institute 87 students
- New School Community Day 42 students
High schools elsewhere in Watsonville
- Ceiba College Preparatory Academy Ceiba College Preparatory Academy 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.