Taft City
Key statistics
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.
Students
By grade
- Kindergarten 366
- Grade 1 252
- Grade 2 259
- Grade 3 259
- Grade 4 255
- Grade 5 265
- Grade 6 256
- Grade 7 215
- Grade 8 277
By race/ethnicity
- Hispanic/Latino 74%
- White 23%
- Black or African American <1%
- Two or more races <1%
- Asian <1%
- American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <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 82%
- Reduced-price lunch 8%
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 $9,418
- Support services $5,813
- Other (food service, etc.) $1,774
Where the money comes from
- Local 27%
- State 54%
- Federal 19%
Total revenue $63.1 milliontotal spending $45.9 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 08
Locale (NCES)
Town: DistantStudents: 87% town, 13% rural
Total staff (FTE)
277
District office
820 Sixth St., Taft CA 93268
Phone
County
Kern County
Official website
NCES District ID
638700
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About Taft City
Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.