Yucca Valley High

Yucca Valley High, a mid-tier 9-12 campus in Yucca Valley, California, operated by Morongo Unified, serves 1,168 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 39% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Within Morongo Unified, which oversees 16 schools and 7,225 students, Yucca Valley High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Yucca Valley High logs that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 39% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, On paper, Yucca Valley High has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Bernardino County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Yucca Valley High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.8%; this one delivers 34.0%.

In the area at large, census data for San Bernardino County shows median household earnings sit near $85,478, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Yucca Valley High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Yucca Valley Elementary, roughly 1.5 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Yucca Valley High comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yucca Valley High has fell 18%, going from 1,417 students in 2018 to 1,168 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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