Mt. Whitney High

Mt. Whitney High operates as a sizable high school in Visalia, California, overseen by Visalia Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,637 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Mt. Whitney High sits 95% bigger than that benchmark.

Visalia Unified comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 28,725 students; Mt. Whitney High is among them.

On demographics, Mt. Whitney High shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%; the rest reads as 13% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

Looking at school resources, Mt. Whitney High records 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.9:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mt. Whitney High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tulare County put median household income runs about $71,300, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Mt. Whitney High is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Conyer Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mt. Whitney High. On composite proficiency, Mt. Whitney High comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mt. Whitney High's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,595 (now 1,637). The White share of enrollment contracted from 24% to 13% over that span.

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