Central High

Located at 2045 North Dickenson Ave., in Fresno, California, Central High is a low-enrollment high school that works with 625 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Central Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Central High sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

Central Unified comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 15,956 students; Central High is among them.

On demographics, Central High records that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 18% White, 14% Asian, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Central High records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Central High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of +7.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Fresno County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Central High is one campus in the mix.

Roosevelt Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Central High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 34.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.