Alessandro High

Set in Hemet, California, Alessandro High is a very small secondary school, run under Hemet Unified. It teaches 335 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Alessandro High sits 60% smaller than that benchmark.

Hemet Unified runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 22,778 students. Alessandro High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Alessandro High shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Riverside County) records that median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Alessandro High is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Hemet Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 326 students in 2018 compared to 335 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 64% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.