Mendota High

Mendota High, a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Mendota, California, one of the schools within Mendota Unified, teaches 1,065 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Across the 7 schools in Mendota Unified (3,977 students total), Mendota High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Mendota High logs that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Mendota High has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mendota High sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 21.4%; actual is 36.1%, +14.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Mendota High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mendota Junior High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Mendota High. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mendota High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 20%: 885 students in 2018 compared to 1,065 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Mendota High typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.