Lucerne Valley High

Lucerne Valley High is a four-year high school of minimally staffed scale in Lucerne Valley, California, run under Lucerne Valley Unified, enrolling 322 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Lucerne Valley High sits 62% below that benchmark.

Lucerne Valley Unified runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,179 students. Lucerne Valley High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Lucerne Valley High shows that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 34% White, 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at Lucerne Valley High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Bernardino County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lucerne Valley High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.9%; this one delivers 21.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household earnings sit near $85,478, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Lucerne Valley High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lucerne Valley Middle, around 0.0 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lucerne Valley High comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 63%: 197 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 52% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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