Brawley Union High

Located at 480 North Imperial Ave., in Brawley, California, Brawley Union High is a well-populated high school that caters to 1,863 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Brawley Union High. Enrollment runs roughly 122% above the state mean of about 838.

Brawley Union High comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 2,047 students; Brawley Union High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Brawley Union High records that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 3% White.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at Brawley Union High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Brawley Union High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of +4.5 points.

Across the wider county, Imperial County reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,681 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Imperial County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), Brawley Union High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Barbara Worth Junior High, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Brawley Union High comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Brawley Union High operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 10%: 1,687 students in 2018 compared to 1,863 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 7% to 3% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 in 2025.

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