Cathedral City High

Cathedral City High is a heavily attended secondary school in Cathedral City, California, run under Palm Springs Unified. The school educates 1,334 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 59% bigger than typical.

Palm Springs Unified comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 20,007 students; Cathedral City High is among them.

On the student-mix side, Cathedral City High lists that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Cathedral City High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Cathedral City High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cathedral City High is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 22.6%; this one delivers 43.3%, a residual of +20.7 points.

In the broader community, Riverside County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Cathedral City High is one.

Nellie N. Coffman Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cathedral City High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cathedral City High at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 30.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 1,618 students in 2018 compared to 1,334 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

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