Pacific High

Located at 1020 Pacific St., in San Bernardino, California, Pacific High is a medium-sized four-year high school that works with 1,246 students (grades 9 through 12), part of San Bernardino City Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Pacific High sits 49% above that benchmark.

San Bernardino City Unified runs 72 schools in total, collectively educating 44,080 students. Pacific High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pacific High reports that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 9% Black, 4% White. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Pacific High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Pacific High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pacific High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 26.4%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Around the school, San Bernardino County reports that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Pacific High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: San Bernardino Co Juve Detention and Assessment Center, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pacific High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pacific High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pacific High has held roughly steady, going from 1,237 students in 2018 to 1,246 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 73% to 83%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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