High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Santa Maria High, Santa Maria, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 3,143
- Teachers (FTE)
- 143.0
- Students per teacher
- 22.0
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 21.7. 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
- 901 South Broadway, Santa Maria, CA 93454
- Phone
- (805)925-2567
- District
- Santa Maria Joint Union High
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 063567006084
School meals
- Free lunch
- 2,333
- Reduced-price lunch
- 59
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 2,39276.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 1,990Students 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 Santa Maria Joint Union High
- Pioneer Valley High 3,080 students
- Ernest Righetti High 2,416 students
- Delta High 291 students
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.