Public Schools in California
10,006 schools · 1,971 districts · 5,837,868 students
Largest Schools in California
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
River Springs Charter
Temecula
Blue Ridge Academy
Maricopa
Highlands Community Charter
Sacramento
Visions In Education
Carmichael
Granada Hills Charter
Granada Hills
California Virtual Academy @ Los Angeles
Simi Valley
California Connections Academy Southern California
San Juan Capistrano
Pacific Coast Academy
Poway
Mission Vista Academy
Beaumont
Heartland Charter
Maricopa
Frequently Asked Questions
California has 10,006 public schools across 1,971 districts, serving 5,837,868 students.
The largest school in California is River Springs Charter with 6,886 students. California has 10,006 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 45%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
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.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.