Palo Verde High

Set in Blythe, California, Palo Verde High is a reasonably sized 9-12 campus, run under Palo Verde Unified. It teaches 740 students across grades 9 through 12.

Within Palo Verde Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 2,610 students, Palo Verde High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Palo Verde High logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 15% White, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, Palo Verde High records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Palo Verde High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Palo Verde High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.7%, the actual is 26.5%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Palo Verde High is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Twin Palms Continuation, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Palo Verde High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Palo Verde High at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 18.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 870 students in 2018 compared to 740 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 26% to 15% over that span.

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