Yuma High School

Located at 400 S 6TH AVE, in YUMA, Arizona, Yuma High School is a high-enrollment four-year high school that caters to 1,040 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Yuma Union High School District (4507). That puts it 65% larger than the typical public school in Arizona, which averages around 631 students.

Yuma Union High School District (4507) runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 11,217 students. Yuma High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Yuma High School logs that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 6% White. By comparison, Yuma County as a whole is about 65% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. The state averages around 20.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the broader community, census data for Yuma County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,876 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Yuma County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,800 students), Yuma High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Roosevelt School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Yuma High School.

Yuma High School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 1,116 students in 2018 compared to 1,040 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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