Walnut High

Walnut High is one of the high-enrollment secondary schools in Walnut, California, one of the schools within Walnut Valley Unified, with 2,148 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Walnut High sits 156% above that benchmark.

Across the 15 schools in Walnut Valley Unified (13,992 students total), Walnut High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Walnut High reports that the largest single group is Asian, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% White. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, Walnut High records 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 24% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Walnut High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.4%, the actual is 69.8%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Walnut High is one.

Suzanne Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walnut High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Walnut High at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 67.2%.

Walnut High operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Walnut High's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 2,527 (now 2,148). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 26% to 31%.

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