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Alternative · Grades 9–12 · 77 students
Alta Vista Alternative High
215 East Ortega St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Grades
9–12
High
Students
119
Enrolled 2024–25
Students per teacher
12.6 : 1
Full-time teachers
District
Santa Barbara Unified
Santa Barbara County
Not graded
Alternative schools serve students whose needs a regular school could not meet, and states hold them to separate accountability rules, so we don't rank them against regular schools. How we grade
About Alta Vista Alternative High
Alta Vista Alternative High is an alternative high school in Santa Barbara, California, serving grades 9–12. It is part of Santa Barbara Unified. The school is located in a small city in Santa Barbara County.
In the 2024–25 school year, 119 students were enrolled, with about 12.6 students for every full-time teacher. That ratio is smaller than the typical California high school (18.5 students per teacher). The school is mostly virtual.
Grades & enrollment
Students per grade, 2024–25Grades 9–12
Location & nearby schools
School details
- Type
- Alternative School · What this means
- Level
- High
- Grades offered
- 9–12
- Enrollment (2024–25)
- 119 students
- Students per teacher
- 12.6 to 1
- Charter school
- No
- Magnet school
- No
- Virtual learning
- Mostly virtual
- Locale
- City — Small
- School district
- Santa Barbara Unified
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- NCES school ID
- 060141412435
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School data comes from the U.S. Department of Education: the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDGE school locations (2024–25) and Private School Survey (2023–24), the Civil Rights Data Collection (2023–24), and EDFacts (test results 2021–22; graduation and chronic absenteeism 2022–23), plus other public sources. Please contact the school to confirm enrollment, programs, and other details. How we source data.