Public school / High
Paloma Valley High
Menifee, California
- NCES ID
- 063021004992
- District
- Perris Union High
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Paloma Valley High is a public high school in Menifee, California, run by Perris Union High. It enrols 2,761 students — the 488th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
2,761
Teachers
113.0
Students per teacher
24.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
58.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Perris Union High
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Paloma Valley High2,761 students
- 2Heritage High2,428 students
- 3Perris High2,243 students
- 4Liberty High1,753 students
- 5California Military Institute1,006 students
- 6Pinacate Middle927 students
- 7Perris Lake High (Continuation)357 students
- 8Scholar Plus Online Learning123 students
- Enrollment+482.5%
- Teachers+438.1%
- Students per teacher+10.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−14.1%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory