Armijo High

Armijo High is one of the large high schools in Fairfield, California, one of the schools within Fairfield-Suisun Unified, with 1,844 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Armijo High sits 120% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Fairfield-Suisun Unified, which oversees 31 schools and 20,505 students, Armijo High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Armijo High shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 13% Black, 12% Asian, 7% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Solano County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Armijo High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 22.9%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Solano County reports that the typical household earns roughly $100,401 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Solano County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), Armijo High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Matt Garcia Career and College Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Armijo High comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Armijo High has shrank 14%, going from 2,155 students in 2018 to 1,844 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 47% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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