Yucaipa High

Yucaipa High operates as a large high school in Yucaipa, California, operated by Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified. Current enrollment sits at 2,755 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Yucaipa High sits 229% above that benchmark.

Within Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified, which oversees 13 schools and 8,519 students, Yucaipa High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Yucaipa High logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 44% White, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 114 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Yucaipa High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Yucaipa High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Bernardino County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,478, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, San Bernardino County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), of which Yucaipa High is one.

Dunlap Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Yucaipa High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yucaipa High ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Yucaipa High's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 2,812 (now 2,755). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 55% to 44%.

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