Temple City High

Temple City High is a 9-12 campus of sprawling scale in Temple City, California, part of Temple City Unified, educateing 1,779 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 112% bigger than typical.

Temple City High is one of 8 schools operated by Temple City Unified, a district that works with 5,269 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Temple City High shows that 69% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Temple City High higher than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Temple City High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.1%, the actual is 69.2%, a residual of +11.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Temple City High is one campus in the mix.

Oak Avenue Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Temple City High. On composite proficiency, Temple City High comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.0%.

Temple City High operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Temple City High has decreased 10%, going from 1,977 students in 2018 to 1,779 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.