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Education in Santa Cruz, CA

The City is home to several notable educational institutions at all levels. At the lower levels, these include Soquel High School, Aptos High School, Harbor High School, Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School (a grade 6–12 private school), Pacific Collegiate School (a grade 7–12 charter school), Cypress Charter High School, Santa Cruz Montessori (an 18 month to 15 years private school) Monterey Coast Preparatory (also a 6–12 private school), and Santa Cruz High School. These and the remaining public schools are administered by Santa Cruz City Schools and include four elementary schools, two middle schools, three high schools, and six other smaller or charter schools.

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), is a public research university and on of 10 campuses in the University of California system. UCSC is located at the edge of the coastal community of Santa Cruz, spreading over 2,000 acres of rolling, forested hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay. Since its founding in 1965, the university has evolved into a modern research university with a wide variety of both undergraduate and graduate programs, while retaining its reputation for strong undergraduate support and student political activism. Other nearby colleges include Cabrillo College, with an enrollment over nearly 13,000, just six miles from Santa Cruz center.

Commuting Time in Santa Cruz, CA

A major hot spot for tourists and residents alike, but geographically constrained between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Monterey Bay, the narrow transportation corridor served by State Route 1, California's Pacific Coast Highway, suffers excessive congestion. The City has expressed interest in supporting a variety of transportation options within the City, actively supporting bike lanes and use of zero/low emission vehicles. The transportation options to and within the city include:

• State Routes 1 and 17 are the main roads in and out of Santa Cruz, with the latter being the primary route north to San Jose and the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area.
• The Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District provides bus service throughout Santa Cruz County.
• Amtrak serves Santa Cruz via Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach from rail connections at Amtrak San Jose Diridon Train Station operated by the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District by way of a partnership with the Amtrak, Capitol Corridor, and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Greyhound Lines bus service is another, albeit less commonly used, option for visiting Santa Cruz.
• The nearest airports served by major commercial airlines are San Jose International Airport, Monterey Regional Airport, San Francisco International Airport, and Oakland International Airport. The nearest public airport of any kind is Watsonville Municipal Airport, about eight miles to the southeast, which serves general aviation users.
• Santa Cruz has an extensive network of bike lanes and bike paths. Most major roads have bike lanes, and wide bike lanes were recently installed on Beach Street, near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
• The City has installed 13 spaces with electric vehicle charging stations for public use at no charge. Three of these stations are at the Soquel/Front garage; three at River/Front garage, Lot 10; two at Pearl Alley, Lot 8; two at South Pacific, Lot 12, and one each at Beach Hill, Lot 18, Wharf/Marini’s and the 1111 Soquel east side lot.

Employees in Santa Cruz have an average commute time of 20.7 minutes, which is shorter than the national average of 24.8 minutes. The largest share of workers drives alone, followed by those who bicycle and walk.