Erma Duncan Polytechnical High

As an average-sized senior high in Fresno, California, Erma Duncan Polytechnical High enrolls 1,186 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Fresno Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 42% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Fresno Unified runs 100 schools in total, collectively educating 67,873 students. Erma Duncan Polytechnical High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Erma Duncan Polytechnical High logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 80%. Beyond that, the school shows 11% Asian, 4% White, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 18.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Erma Duncan Polytechnical High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.9%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Fresno County shows median household income runs about $74,201, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Erma Duncan Polytechnical High is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Centennial 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, Erma Duncan Polytechnical High comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 25.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Erma Duncan Polytechnical High has rose 8%, going from 1,103 students in 2018 to 1,186 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 11% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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