Mountain View High

Mountain View High is a senior high of one-room-style scale in San Jacinto, California, overseen by San Jacinto Unified, caters to 231 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 72% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

San Jacinto Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 10,273 students. Mountain View High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mountain View High records that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 6% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mountain View High has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Mountain View High higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Riverside County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for Riverside County shows median household income runs about $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Mountain View High is one.

Mountain Heights Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 242 students in 2018 compared to 231 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 73% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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