High · California
Mesquite Continuation High
AlternativeFree meals for allMesquite Continuation High, a public high school in Ridgecrest, California: grades 9–12, 95 students, 13.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Sierra Sands 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
- 95
- Teachers (FTE)
- 6.9
- Students per teacher
- 13.8
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 75% of high schools in California
Median 19.1 · 2,120 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 54% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 76% of high schools in California
Median 462 · 2,126 schools compared
Smaller than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote town
- Run by
- Sierra Sands Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Sierra Sands Unified.
Location
- Address
- 140 West Drummond, Ridgecrest, CA 93555
- Phone
- (760)499-1810
- City or town
- Ridgecrest
- County
- Kern 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Burroughs HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,536 | 20.4 |
| 7–12 | 111 | 11.7 |
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.
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