About Taft City School District
Taft City School District is a public school system serving Kern County, California, based in Taft. It serves 2,404 students across 6 schools spanning K–8, and is classified as a town: distant district. By enrollment it is the #436 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Taft City School District enrolls 2,404 students in 6 schools — an average of about 401 students per school. It serves grades K–8 and ranks #436 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Taft City School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (2,404 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Taft City School District employs about 113 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 21.2:1 — below the California average of about 21.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 277.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Taft City School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Taft City School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Taft City School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Taft City School District vs. California
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Look up Taft City School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):