Holtville High

Holtville High is a small four-year high school in Holtville, California, run under Holtville Unified. The school enrolls 516 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Holtville High sits 38% below that benchmark.

Holtville Unified runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,574 students. Holtville High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Holtville High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Beyond that, the school shows 11% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at Holtville High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Holtville High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.7%.

In the surrounding community, Imperial County reports that the typical household earns roughly $57,681 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Imperial County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), of which Holtville High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sam Webb Continuation, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Holtville High comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

Holtville High operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 534 students in 2018 compared to 516 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.