Soquel High
Public · Grades 9–12 · 1,074 students
Merit Academy
PO Box 2988, Santa Cruz, CA 95063
Grades
9–12
High
Students
24
Enrolled 2024–25
Students per teacher
24 : 1
Full-time teachers
District
Private School
Santa Cruz County
About Merit Academy
Merit Academy is a private high school in Santa Cruz, California, serving grades 9–12. The school is located in a rural area near a town in Santa Cruz County.
In the 2024–25 school year, 24 students were enrolled, with about 24 students for every full-time teacher. That ratio is larger than the typical California high school (18.5 students per teacher).
Grades
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Highlighted: grades offeredGrades 9–12
Location & nearby schools
School details
- Type
- Private School · What this means
- Level
- High
- Grades offered
- 9–12
- Enrollment (2024–25)
- 24 students
- Students per teacher
- 24 to 1
- Locale
- Rural — Fringe
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- NCES private school ID
- A0500501
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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.