Puente Hills High

Puente Hills High is an one-room-style unified-grade school in Hacienda Heights, California, run under Hacienda la Puente Unified. The school caters to 154 students in grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% smaller than the state mean of about 602.

Hacienda la Puente Unified runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 16,260 students. Puente Hills High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Puente Hills High logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 8% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Puente Hills High lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Puente Hills High tighter than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the surrounding community, Los Angeles County reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Puente Hills High is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Valley Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 25%: 123 students in 2018 compared to 154 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 7.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.