Rubidoux High

Set in Jurupa Valley, California, Rubidoux High is a substantial high school, operated by Jurupa Unified. It enrolls 1,259 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Within Jurupa Unified, which oversees 24 schools and 17,739 students, Rubidoux High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Rubidoux High lists that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 4% White. By comparison, Riverside County as a whole is about 51% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Rubidoux High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.7%; this one delivers 13.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,074 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Rubidoux High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Rustic Lane Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rubidoux High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rubidoux High ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 19.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rubidoux High has shrank 20%, going from 1,572 students in 2018 to 1,259 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.

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