Indio High

Indio High is a high school of sprawling scale in Indio, California, operated by Desert Sands Unified, teacheing 1,962 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Indio High sits 134% larger than that benchmark.

Within Desert Sands Unified, which oversees 34 schools and 25,613 students, Indio High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Indio High records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder breaks down as 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Indio High has 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Indio High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Indio High is one.

John F. Kennedy Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Indio High comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,986 students in 2018 compared to 1,962 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Indio High community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.