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Kern High

Bakersfield, California · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

43,237
Students enrolled
25
Public schools
1,811
Classroom teachers (FTE)
23.9:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Grade 9 10,771
  • Grade 10 10,340
  • Grade 11 10,900
  • Grade 12 11,226

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 72%
  • White 14%
  • Black or African American 5%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • Asian 3%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

78% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 33,433 of 42,814 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 69%
  • Reduced-price lunch 9%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$19,060 spent per student on day-to-day operations California median: $19,068 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $9,253
  • Support services $9,089
  • Other (food service, etc.) $719

Where the money comes from

  • Local 24%
  • State 63%
  • Federal 12%

Total revenue $1.0 billiontotal spending $955.0 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

KG to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: LargeStudents: 59% city, 15% suburb, 15% rural, 12% town

Total staff (FTE)

7,009

District office

5801 Sundale Ave., Bakersfield CA 93309

County

Kern County

Official website

NCES District ID

619540

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About Kern High

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The Kern High School District (KHSD) is headquartered in Bakersfield, California and serves the county of Kern located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The Kern High School District is California's largest 9-12 high school district with more than 35,000 students and 3,500 employees.The KHSD encompasses about 3,500 square miles, about 43 percent of the total area of Kern County.
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