About Watsonville Prep District
Watsonville Prep District is a public school system serving Santa Cruz County, California, based in Watsonville. It serves 488 students across 1 schools spanning K–8, and is classified as a city: small district. By enrollment it is the #1008 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Watsonville Prep District enrolls 488 students in 1 schools — an average of about 488 students per school. It serves grades K–8 and ranks #1008 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Watsonville Prep District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (488 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
Watsonville Prep District employs about 21 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 23.6:1 — above the California average of about 21.7:1. Total district staff is roughly 81.
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 Watsonville Prep 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 Watsonville Prep 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 Watsonville Prep District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Watsonville Prep District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up Watsonville Prep 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):