Coachella Valley High

Coachella Valley High is a secondary school of big scale in Thermal, California, one of the schools within Coachella Valley Unified, educateing 2,300 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Coachella Valley High sits 174% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 21 schools in Coachella Valley Unified (15,817 students total), Coachella Valley High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Coachella Valley High lists that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, Coachella Valley High records 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.6:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Coachella Valley High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Coachella Valley High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 23.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Riverside County put the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Coachella Valley High is one.

Nearest neighbor: NOVA Academy - Coachella, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coachella Valley High. On composite proficiency, Coachella Valley High comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coachella Valley High has ticked down 14%, going from 2,684 students in 2018 to 2,300 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

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