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Enrollment
1,890
High
DISTRICT 1,140 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VISALIA UNIFIED·NCES 064116010703
El Diamante High
5100 West Whitendale Ave., Visalia, CA 93277 · (559) 735-3500 · Tulare County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,890 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 65% of California public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
89 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
1,184 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 527 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 484 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 445 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 434 | 23% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
70.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +9.4pp since 2014
Math
25.5%
CA avg 37.7% . -2.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 33.3% | 37.1% | 19.9% | 9.8% |
| Math | 9.1% | 16.4% | 23.2% | 51.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.4% | 25.5% |
| 2023-24 | 70.0% | 22.9% |
| 2022-23 | 69.8% | 22.1% |
| 2021-22 | 75.3% | 20.1% |
| 2018-19 | 71.8% | 26.1% |
| 2017-18 | 71.2% | 28.3% |
| 2016-17 | 78.8% | 29.7% |
| 2015-16 | 76.0% | 34.0% |
| 2014-15 | 61.0% | 28.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like El Diamante High
El Diamante High's state test result (47.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Diamante High this school | 1,890 | 62.6% | 47.2% |
| Fullerton Union High Fullerton | 1,880 | 62.8% | 49.0% |
| Mission Oak High Tulare | 1,678 | 66.3% | 38.2% |
| Piner High Santa Rosa | 1,434 | 64.4% | 27.1% |
| East Union High Manteca | 1,524 | 62.4% | 33.4% |
| La Habra High La Habra | 1,881 | 65.1% | 39.9% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where El Diamante High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Tulare County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #366 of 1,052 | #5 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #521 of 1,056 ▲ 9 | #8 of 24 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #241 of 1,056 ▼ 4 | #5 of 24 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #642 of 1,044 | #20 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,890 | #351 of 2,093 | #6 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.2:1 | #719 of 1,352 | #12 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.5% | #774 of 1,351 | #6 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.6% | #999 of 1,575 | #23 of 26 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #598 of 802 | #6 of 12 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,890
-213 (-10%) vs 2020
-3% since 2010-11, when it was 1,951
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
was 24.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,890 | 89.1 | 21.2:1 | 63% (1,184) |
| 2023-24 | 1,942 | 90.6 | 21.4:1 | 56% (1,097) |
| 2022-23 | 1,987 | 89.5 | 22.2:1 | 55% (1,092) |
| 2020-21 | 2,103 | 86 | 24.4:1 | 59% (1,234) |
| 2017-18 | 2,008 | 81.3 | 24.7:1 | 58% (1,157) |
| 2015-16 | 1,958 | 77 | 25.4:1 | 54% (1,048) |
| 2010-11 | 1,951 | N/A | N/A | 38% (733) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for El Diamante High.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (2,008 to 1,890); teachers up 10% (81.3 to 89.1).
About El Diamante High
El Diamante High is a high-enrollment high school in Visalia, California. In all, 1,890 students attend the school in grades 9 through 12. That is 126% bigger than the average of about 838 students for high schools in California.
Visalia Unified enrolls 28,725 students, and its 41 schools include El Diamante High.
The largest group at El Diamante High is Hispanic students, at 72%. Enrollment also includes 17% White, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The diversity index for El Diamante High is 45%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 89.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 21.2:1. High schools in California average 18.2:1, 3.0 fewer students per teacher than here. El Diamante High has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 63%. For comparison, public schools in Tulare County average 77%.
El Diamante High holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 65% of California public high schools.
El Diamante High is 4.4 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (47.2% versus 42.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
In Tulare County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $71,300, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 17%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. There are 196 public schools in the county, enrolling about 101,494, El Diamante High among them.
La Joya Middle, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 35.6%; El Diamante High's is 47.2%, ranking 2nd of 8.
NCES assigns El Diamante High the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A 10% decline took enrollment from 2,103 in 2020-21 to 1,890 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 24.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 21.2:1.
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Tulare County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
478,693
Census ACS
Median income
$71,300
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
196
101,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Visalia Unified
- Redwood HighHigh · 2,490 students
- Golden West HighHigh · 2,059 students
- Mt. Whitney HighHigh · 1,637 students
- Ridgeview MiddleMiddle · 975 students
- Valley Oak MiddleMiddle · 952 students
- Riverway ElementaryElementary · 857 students
Other schools in Visalia
- Redwood HighHigh · 2,490 students
- Golden West HighHigh · 2,059 students
- Mt. Whitney HighHigh · 1,637 students
- Special EducationCombined · 1,141 students
- Ridgeview MiddleMiddle · 975 students
- Valley Oak MiddleMiddle · 952 students
Nearby schools
- La Joya Middle0.3 mi · 727
- Linwood Elementary0.4 mi · 537
- Visalia Technical Early College0.5 mi · 216
- Valley Life Charter0.9 mi · 688
- Veva Blunt Elementary1.1 mi · 596
- Crestwood Elementary1.3 mi · 594
Frequently asked questions
About El Diamante HighHow many students attend El Diamante High?
El Diamante High enrolls approximately 1,890 students in grades 09-12.
Is El Diamante High an elementary, middle, or high school?
El Diamante High is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at El Diamante High?
Approximately 21.2:1 students per teacher at El Diamante High.
What is the racial breakdown of students at El Diamante High?
At El Diamante High, the student body is approximately 17% White, 72% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is El Diamante High public or private?
El Diamante High is a public K-12 school, overseen by Visalia Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.