La Sierra High

La Sierra High is a 9-12 campus of rural-scale scale in Visalia, California, overseen by Tulare County Office of Education, serveing 191 students in grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 77% leaner than typical.

Within Tulare County Office of Education, which oversees 5 schools and 1,656 students, La Sierra High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, La Sierra High shows that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 67% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Tulare County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, La Sierra High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.1%; actual is 11.3%, a gap of -30.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tulare County put the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), La Sierra High is one campus in the mix.

Four Creeks Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts La Sierra High at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 24.8%.

La Sierra High operates from an urban location. La Sierra High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. La Sierra High's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 191). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 15% to 5%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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