Diamond Bar High

Diamond Bar · CA · Walnut Valley Unified · Public


📖14 AP courses 🎓97% 4-yr grad rate

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 14 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 17 calculus classes · 8 physics · 25 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: 71st percentile nationally
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 67th percentile by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Diamond Bar High compares for families

Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.

  • StatewideAP rigor at the 71st percentile nationally with 14 AP courses.
  • LocallyCA trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−4 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: John A. Rowland High, La Serna High, California High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

71st percentile nationally

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
14
Subject breadth not reported
Students taking AP courses
1,187
≈46 per 100 students · uptake, not just offerings
Advanced math classes
20
17 calculus · 3 advanced
Lab science classes
33
8 physics · 25 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Gifted/talented program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

67th percentile by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
135
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
5.3
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

90th percentile nationally

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
97%
Single-point estimate
4-year cohort size
724
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
14.0%
Typical mix. Watch the trend — high turnover can compound.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
56.1%
Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Lower-need school

Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)

22.6%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

Counselor capacity

Student : Counselor
285:1
Above the ASCA 250:1 target but below the US median (~430:1). Capacity is workable.
Counselor FTE
9.0
Full-time-equivalent school counselors on staff.
Teacher FTE
99
Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 612 in 2021 to 647 in 2024 — over 3 years.
+5.7%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +0.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 2,563 students:

2025
2,569
2027
2,582
2029
2,594

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue upside

At $14,736 per student in district revenue, the 31 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $456,816/year in additional funding.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
John A. Rowland High
Rowland Heights
Public 2.6 2,016 +4.8%
La Serna High
Whittier
Public 9.3 2,372 -1.2%
California High
Whittier
Public 10.9 2,261 -13.4%
Nogales High
La Puente
Public 3.4 1,535 -11.7%
Diamond Ranch High
Pomona
Public 4.4 1,542 +0.9%
South Hills High
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Public 6.0 1,568 -3.2%
Garey High
Pomona
Public 6.2 1,567 -7.3%
Los Altos High
Hacienda Heights
Public 8.0 1,592 -3.7%

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