Don Antonio Lugo High

As an average-sized senior high in Chino, California, Don Antonio Lugo High teaches 1,256 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Chino Valley Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 50% larger than the state mean of about 838.

Chino Valley Unified runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 25,548 students. Don Antonio Lugo High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Don Antonio Lugo High logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 9% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at Don Antonio Lugo High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Don Antonio Lugo High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Bernardino County put median household earnings sit near $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Don Antonio Lugo High is one.

Dickson Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Don Antonio Lugo High comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Don Antonio Lugo High has ticked down 23%, going from 1,632 students in 2018 to 1,256 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 76% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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