Banning High

Banning High, a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in Banning, California, run under Banning Unified, works with 1,145 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 37% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Across the 9 schools in Banning Unified (4,234 students total), Banning High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Banning High lists that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 9% White, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Banning High has 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.8:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Banning High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.0%; this one delivers 22.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Banning High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Central Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Banning High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Banning High at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 29.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Banning High has increased 12%, going from 1,019 students in 2018 to 1,145 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 67% to 73% over that span.

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