Whittier K-12
San Diego · CA · San Diego Unified · Public · K-12 combined
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Clairemont High → Scy High (Southern California Yeshiva High School) → Riley/New Dawn → High Tech High Mesa → Mt. Everest Academy → Mission Bay High → San Diego Metro Career and Tech → San Diego Center For Children Academy →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Whittier K-12 compares for families
What families should know about Whittier K-12.
- ▸ LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Clairemont High, Scy High (Southern California Yeshiva High School), Riley/New Dawn and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +14.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 77 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clairemont High San Diego |
Public | 0.5 | 823 | -6.7% |
| Scy High (Southern California Yeshiva High School) San Diego |
Private | 0.8 | 33 | — |
| Riley/New Dawn San Diego |
Public | 1.2 | 63 | -17.1% |
| High Tech High Mesa San Diego |
Public · charter | 1.3 | 435 | +3.1% |
| Mt. Everest Academy San Diego |
Public | 1.3 | 122 | -2.4% |
| Mission Bay High San Diego |
Public | 1.5 | 1,240 | +4.6% |
| San Diego Metro Career and Tech San Diego |
Public | 1.6 | 119 | +11.2% |
| San Diego Center For Children Academy San Diego |
Private | 1.8 | 62 | -30.3% |