Dos Palos High

Dos Palos High operates as a compact high school in Dos Palos, California, one of the schools within Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 639 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 24% smaller than the state mean of about 838.

Within Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 2,254 students, Dos Palos High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dos Palos High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%); the rest is composed of 9% White, 3% Black, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Dos Palos High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Merced County's rate of about 81%.

With demographic context factored in, Dos Palos High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.7%; this one delivers 35.6%.

Around the school, Merced County reports that median household income runs about $65,510, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Merced County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,456 students), of which Dos Palos High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bernhard Marks Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dos Palos High at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 30.8%.

Dos Palos High operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Dos Palos High's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 674 (now 639). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 78% to 85%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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