Central Valley High

Central Valley High is a 9-12 campus of heavily attended scale in Ceres, California, operated by Ceres Unified, educateing 2,317 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 176% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Within Ceres Unified, which oversees 23 schools and 13,665 students, Central Valley High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Central Valley High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest looks like 7% White, 6% Asian. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Stanislaus County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Central Valley High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of +7.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Stanislaus County indicate median household income runs about $81,468, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Stanislaus County runs 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), of which Central Valley High is one.

The closest other public school is Don Pedro Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Central Valley High comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 22.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Valley High has increased 17%, going from 1,976 students in 2018 to 2,317 in 2025.

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