Sun Valley High

As a heavily attended senior high in Monroe, North Carolina, Sun Valley High enrolls 1,272 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Union County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 67% bigger than the state mean of about 761.

Across the 52 schools in Union County Public Schools (41,272 students total), Sun Valley High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Sun Valley High reports that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sun Valley High has 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting Sun Valley High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sun Valley High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 64.8%; actual is 42.2%, a gap of -22.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Union County indicate the typical household earns roughly $102,900 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Union County's 58 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,934 students), Sun Valley High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sun Valley Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sun Valley High. On composite proficiency, Sun Valley High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 73.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sun Valley High has fell 19%, going from 1,575 students in 2018 to 1,272 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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