Rancho Verde High

Rancho Verde High is a sizable senior high in Moreno Valley, California, run under Val Verde Unified. The school educates 2,101 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Rancho Verde High sits 151% larger than that benchmark.

Val Verde Unified runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 19,065 students. Rancho Verde High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Rancho Verde High logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 20% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Rancho Verde High has 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rancho Verde High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.6%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of +5.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Riverside County) records that median household earnings sit near $93,074, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Rancho Verde High is one campus in the mix.

Vista Verde Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rancho Verde High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Rancho Verde High's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 2,371 (now 2,101). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.