Val Verde High

Val Verde High, a very small senior high in Perris, California, run under Val Verde Unified, hosts 275 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 67% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

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

Demographically, Val Verde High logs that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 10% Black, 3% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Riverside County's rate of about 74%.

In the area at large, census data for Riverside County shows median household earnings sit near $93,074, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Riverside County's 543 public schools (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students), Val Verde High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Val Verde Academy, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Val Verde High has declined 26%, going from 373 students in 2018 to 275 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 73% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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