Covina High

As an average-sized high school in Covina, California, Covina High instructs 1,056 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Covina-Valley Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 26% larger than typical.

Within Covina-Valley Unified, which oversees 17 schools and 11,028 students, Covina High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Covina High records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 11% Asian, 5% White, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Covina High higher than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Covina High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of -2.6 points.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Covina High is one.

Traweek Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Covina High. On composite proficiency, Covina High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 1,217 students in 2018 compared to 1,056 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.