Mt. San Jacinto High

Mt. San Jacinto High operates as an one-room-style high school in Cathedral City, California, overseen by Palm Springs Unified. Current enrollment sits at 325 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Mt. San Jacinto High sits 61% below that benchmark.

Within Palm Springs Unified, which oversees 27 schools and 20,007 students, Mt. San Jacinto High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mt. San Jacinto High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Other groups include 4% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Mt. San Jacinto High reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Mt. San Jacinto High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible 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 broader community, the surrounding county (Riverside County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Riverside County runs 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), of which Mt. San Jacinto High is one.

Landau Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Mt. San Jacinto High operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mt. San Jacinto High has declined 24%, going from 426 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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