Chaparral High

As a well-populated four-year high school in Temecula, California, Chaparral High teaches 3,136 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Temecula Valley Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 274% larger than typical.

Temecula Valley Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 26,274 students. Chaparral High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Chaparral High shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 31% White, 13% Asian, 9% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully less Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 119 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Chaparral High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.0%, the actual is 57.5%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Chaparral High is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Ysabel Barnett Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chaparral High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chaparral High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Chaparral High's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 3,098 (now 3,136).

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