High · California
Alta Vista Alternative High
AlternativeMostly virtualAlta Vista Alternative High, a public high school in Santa Barbara, California: grades 9–12, 119 students, 12.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Santa Barbara Unified.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 119
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.4
- Students per teacher
- 12.6
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 78% of high schools in California
Median 19.1 · 2,120 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 63% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 73% of high schools in California
Median 462 · 2,126 schools compared
Smaller than 79% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Instruction
- Mostly virtual
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Santa Barbara Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Santa Barbara Unified.
Location
- Address
- 215 East Ortega St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101
- Phone
- (805)966-0883
- City or town
- Santa Barbara
- County
- Santa Barbara County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
La Cuesta Continuation HighAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 77 | 8.4 |
Santa Barbara Senior HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,924 | 19.5 |
Santa Barbara County ROP-SouthCareer and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Santa Barbara County CommunityAlternative | 5–12 | 27 | 6.7 |
Santa Barbara County Juvenile CourtAlternative | 5–12 | 31 | 10.3 |
San Marcos Senior HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,926 | 21.2 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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