March Mountain High

Set in Moreno Valley, California, March Mountain High is a micro-enrollment four-year high school, run under Moreno Valley Unified. It instructs 255 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so March Mountain High sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

Moreno Valley Unified runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 31,001 students. March Mountain High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, March Mountain High records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. Beyond that, the school records 15% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, On paper, March Mountain High has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household income runs about $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), March Mountain High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: March Valley, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around March Mountain High.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. March Mountain High's enrollment has contracted 26% since 2018, when it stood at 344 (now 255). White enrollment moved from 7% to 2% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.