High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Santa Cruz High, Santa Cruz, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,093
- Teachers (FTE)
- 45.0
- Students per teacher
- 24.3
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 4.3 higher than the district figure of 20.0. 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
- 415 Walnut Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95060
- Phone
- (831)429-3960
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Small
- NCES school ID
- 063560006067
School meals
- Free lunch
- 235
- Reduced-price lunch
- 13
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 24822.7% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 203Students 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
Other high schools in Santa Cruz City High School District
- Soquel High 1,074 students
- Harbor High 1,013 students
- Delta Charter 113 students
- Costanoa Continuation High 77 students
- Ark Independent Studies 56 students
High schools elsewhere in Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz County Community Santa Cruz County Office of Education
- Pacific Collegiate Charter Pacific Collegiate Charter District
- Santa Cruz County Court Santa Cruz County Office of Education
- Santa Cruz County ROP Santa Cruz County ROP
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.