Kern High
Key statistics
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
- 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
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
Phone
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.