Duarte High

Duarte High, an average-sized high school in Duarte, California, part of Duarte Unified, serves 756 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Within Duarte Unified, which oversees 6 schools and 2,949 students, Duarte High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Duarte High logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 11% Asian, 5% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Duarte High has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Duarte High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 44.7%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Duarte High is one.

California School of the Arts - San Gabriel Valley is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Duarte High. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Duarte High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Duarte High has ticked down 13%, going from 869 students in 2018 to 756 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, 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.