Orange Vista High

Orange Vista High is a secondary school of large scale in Perris, California, operated by Val Verde Unified, instructing 2,396 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 186% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Val Verde Unified comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 19,065 students; Orange Vista High is among them.

Demographically, Orange Vista High logs that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Orange Vista High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.9%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Riverside County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Orange Vista High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Triple Crown Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Orange Vista High at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Orange Vista High's enrollment has edged up 45% since 2018, when it stood at 1,652 (now 2,396). Class-load math has fell: from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 in 2025.

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