Harvest High

Harvest High is a four-year high school of one-room-style scale in Ripon, California, one of the schools within Ripon Unified, hosting 16 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 98% smaller than typical.

Ripon Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,378 students. Harvest High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Harvest High logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 38% White, 13% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Joaquin County (around 66%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, San Joaquin County runs 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), of which Harvest High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ripon Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harvest High.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harvest High has shrank 47%, going from 30 students in 2018 to 16 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 0% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.