Berkeley High
Berkeley, CA · High School · Grades 9-12
Berkeley High is a high school in Berkeley, CA with 3,204 students enrolled and a 51% proficiency rate. Part of Berkeley Unified. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Berkeley High is a high school located in Berkeley, California. The school serves 3,204 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.9:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 51% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 88% graduation rate.
23% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Berkeley High is part of the Berkeley Unified in California.
How This School Compares
Berkeley High has 3,204 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Berkeley Unified (531 students). Its 51% proficiency rate is 8 percentage points below the district average of 59%. Compared to the California state average of 45%, the school performs 6 points higher.
Frequently Asked Questions
Berkeley High has 3,204 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.9:1.
According to EDFacts data, 51% of students at Berkeley High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Berkeley High has a 88% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Berkeley High is part of the Berkeley Unified in Berkeley, California. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.