High Desert

High Desert operates as a compact middle-grades school in Acton, California, overseen by Acton-Agua Dulce Unified. Current enrollment sits at 307 students spanning grades 5 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so High Desert sits 53% below that benchmark.

Acton-Agua Dulce Unified runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,053 students. High Desert is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, High Desert lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 36% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, High Desert has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, High Desert performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -14.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), High Desert is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: iLEAD Hybrid, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, High Desert comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 10%: 278 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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