Silverado High

Located at 14048 Cobalt Rd., in Victorville, California, Silverado High is a heavily attended secondary school that educates 2,165 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Victor Valley Union High. That puts it 158% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Victor Valley Union High comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 11,532 students; Silverado High is among them.

Demographically, Silverado High logs that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, The school employs 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at Silverado High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Silverado High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Silverado High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Larrea Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Silverado High comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

Silverado High operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Silverado High has shrank 9%, going from 2,370 students in 2018 to 2,165 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 60% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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