Patriot High

As a well-populated senior high in Jurupa Valley, California, Patriot High educates 2,399 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Jurupa Unified. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 186% bigger than typical.

Across the 24 schools in Jurupa Unified (17,739 students total), Patriot High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Patriot High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%); the rest reads as 9% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Patriot High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Riverside County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Patriot High is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

Camino Real Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Patriot High. On composite proficiency, Patriot High comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Patriot High has held roughly steady, going from 2,352 students in 2018 to 2,399 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 9% across the same window.

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