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Merced Union High

Atwater, California · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

11,062
Students enrolled
9
Public schools
530
Classroom teachers (FTE)
20.9:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Grade 9 2,827
  • Grade 10 2,737
  • Grade 11 2,704
  • Grade 12 2,794

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 73%
  • White 12%
  • Asian 8%
  • Black or African American 4%
  • Two or more races 2%
  • 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

81% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 8,976 of 11,061 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 69%
  • Reduced-price lunch 12%

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

$18,325 spent per student on day-to-day operations California median: $19,068 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $10,169
  • Support services $7,410
  • Other (food service, etc.) $746

Where the money comes from

  • Local 19%
  • State 69%
  • Federal 12%

Total revenue $258.4 milliontotal spending $250.3 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

09 to 12

Locale (NCES)

City: SmallStudents: 39% city, 34% suburb, 16% rural, 11% town

Total staff (FTE)

1,094

District office

3430 A St., Atwater CA 95301

County

Merced County

Official website

NCES District ID

624660

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About Merced Union High

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

DISTRICT MISSION STATEMENT “We educate and empower all students to become 21st century learners, workers and citizens.”
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