Parlier High

Parlier High, a mid-sized high school in Parlier, California, overseen by Parlier Unified, enrolls 901 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Parlier Unified comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,206 students; Parlier High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Parlier High records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Parlier High has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parlier High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.0%, the actual is 15.1%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Fresno County shows median household earnings sit near $74,201, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Parlier High is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mathew J Brletic Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parlier High. On composite proficiency, Parlier High comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Parlier High's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 894 (now 901). Class-load math has tightened: from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Parlier High community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.