Kerman High

Kerman High operates as a well-populated four-year high school in Kerman, California, overseen by Kerman Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,493 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 78% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Kerman Unified runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,272 students. Kerman High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Kerman High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest reads as 7% White, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

With demographic context factored in, Kerman High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.8%; this one delivers 35.2%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) logs that median household income runs about $74,201, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Kerman High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Enterprise High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kerman High. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kerman High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.2%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kerman High has changed only slightly, going from 1,458 students in 2018 to 1,493 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

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