John W. North High

Summary:

John W. North High is a public high school located in Riverside, California, serving grades 9-12 with a total enrollment of 2,173 students. The school is part of the Riverside Unified School District, which is ranked 774 out of 1,568 districts in California and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.

John W. North High has maintained a strong four-year graduation rate, ranging from 94.4% to 97.8% over the past five school years, significantly higher than nearby schools like Opportunity Program (33.3%) and Riverside County Community (21.4%). However, the school has seen an increase in chronic absenteeism, rising from 10.2% in 2018-2019 to 22.1% in 2022-2023, which is higher than the district and state averages. John W. North High's test scores, as measured by the Smarter Balanced Assessments and the California Science Assessment (CAST), are generally lower than the district and state averages, with only 46.59% of 11th-grade students proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy and 11.31% in mathematics.

Compared to nearby schools, John W. North High generally outperforms lower-performing schools but lags behind the high-achieving Riverside STEM Academy and Grand Terrace High School in terms of test scores, graduation rates, and other key metrics. The school's high percentage of students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, ranging from 83.13% to 87.25% over the past three school years, may be a contributing factor to its academic challenges.


Detail:

Public 9-12

 1550 West Third St.
       Riverside, CA  92507-3404


(951) 788-7311

District: Riverside Unified

SchoolDigger Rank:
1206th of 2,323 California High Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $9,064 Help


Feeder schools for John W. North High:

Elementary:    Emerson Elementary
    Fremont Elementary
    Highgrove Elementary
    Highland Elementary
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Middle:    University Heights Middle

Student/teacher ratio:  22.7 Help
Number of students:  2,089

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
74.6%
African American:
10.4%
White:
6.7%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  53.8% Help


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Compare Details John W. North High ranks worse than 51.9% of high schools in California. It also ranks 6th among 9 ranked high schools in the Riverside Unified School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 37.21. (See more...)
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The four-year cohort graduation rate measures the percentage of students at John W. North High who earn a standard high school diploma within four years of starting ninth grade.
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The high school dropout rate measures the percentage of students who do not complete their high school education.
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Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.
Student Body
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Compare Details Racial makeup is: Hispanic (74.6%), African American (10.4%), White (6.7%). (See more...)
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Compare Details 53.8% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)
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Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at John W. North High is 22.7, which is the 4th best among 9 high schools in the Riverside Unified School District. (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at John W. North High is $9,064. 5 high schools in the Riverside Unified School District spend more per student.
Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

John W. North High:

SchoolDigger ranks John W. North High 1206th of 2323 California public high schools. (See John W. North High in the ranking list.)

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Riverside Unified:

SchoolDigger ranks Riverside Unified 774th of 1568 California school districts. (See district ranking list.)

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Rank History for John W. North High

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Rank History for all students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 33.80 832nd 1653 49.7%
2005 37.72 861st 1901 54.7%
2006 42.00 792nd 1968 59.8%
2007 52.04 612th 2063 70.3%
2008 50.14 675th 2117 68.1%
2009 44.80 890th 2238 60.2%
2010 47.93 818th 2281 64.1%
2011 50.03 798th 2367 66.3%
2012 48.76 831st 2354 64.7%
2013 45.95 895th 2426 63.1%
2015 51.39 955th 1994 52.1%
2016 47.78 1052nd 2039 48.4%
2017 47.00 1088th 2021 46.2%
2018 40.51 1204th 2017 40.3%
2019 34.03 1358th 2133 36.3%
2022 43.09 1089th 2123 48.7%
2023 40.61 1119th 2348 52.3%
2024 37.21 1206th 2323 48.1%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2022 13.97 447th 515 13.2%
2023 10.87 678th 786 13.7%
2024 20.88 597th 804 25.7%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 28.79 661st 938 29.5%
2019 45.44 359th 941 61.8%
2022 47.79 358th 1044 65.7%
2023 26.07 985th 1323 25.5%
2024 34.67 642nd 1350 52.4%
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Rank History for Special Education students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2023 21.40 1315th 1547 15.0%
2024 29.03 1008th 1534 34.3%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 39.73 1177th 1862 36.8%
2019 32.29 1314th 1937 32.2%
2022 42.79 1046th 1943 46.2%
2023 43.13 1054th 2247 53.1%
2024 38.77 1176th 2235 47.4%
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Rank History for Homeless students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2022 33.26 197th 290 32.1%
2023 37.29 249th 417 40.3%
2024 67.68 107th 451 76.3%
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Rank History for Female students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 38.18 1149th 1760 34.7%
2019 31.98 1238th 1833 32.5%
2022 39.79 1057th 1858 43.1%
2023 47.98 873rd 2118 58.8%
2024 36.30 1178th 2098 43.9%
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Rank History for Disabled students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 36.27 595th 1052 43.4%
2019 27.92 815th 1117 27.0%
2022 33.80 716th 1161 38.3%
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Rank History for Military Connected students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2022 17.78 144th 168 14.3%
2023 18.36 197th 233 15.5%
2024 17.46 213th 234 9.0%
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Rank History for Male students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 35.98 1162nd 1834 36.6%
2019 31.30 1258th 1880 33.1%
2022 42.13 996th 1916 48.0%
2023 32.85 1257th 2207 43.0%
2024 34.85 1196th 2172 44.9%
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Rank History for Asian students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 20.89 478th 581 17.7%
2019 22.24 472nd 582 18.9%
2023 65.36 278th 731 62.0%
2024 30.18 509th 712 28.5%
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Rank History for African American students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 41.12 323rd 582 44.5%
2019 47.86 281st 592 52.5%
2022 63.48 143rd 522 72.6%
2023 59.90 221st 720 69.3%
2024 60.32 225th 721 68.8%
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Rank History for Hispanic students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 42.63 1054th 1742 39.5%
2019 33.42 1210th 1814 33.3%
2022 44.98 956th 1861 48.6%
2023 44.19 1000th 2142 53.3%
2024 40.46 1105th 2125 48.0%
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Rank History for White students at John W. North High

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked High Schools CA State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 31.20 847th 1173 27.8%
2019 34.92 816th 1222 33.2%
2022 51.67 571st 1204 52.6%
2023 50.70 593rd 1434 58.6%
2024 38.30 777th 1406 44.7%
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Data source: test scores: California Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

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Data source: California Department of Education

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Enrollment information for John W. North High

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 963 315 101 465 4 n/a n/a 0 1848
1989 923 302 107 528 5 n/a n/a 0 1865
1990 883 309 122 638 7 n/a n/a 0 1959
1991 901 304 125 717 7 n/a n/a 0 2054
1992 891 298 147 776 7 n/a n/a 0 2119
1993 926 320 165 809 9 n/a n/a 0 2229
1994 897 299 155 813 5 n/a n/a 0 2169
1995 874 317 145 936 7 n/a n/a 0 2279
1996 874 317 145 936 7 n/a n/a 0 2279
1997 908 330 133 922 11 n/a n/a 0 2304
1998 940 329 162 1004 14 n/a n/a 0 2449
1999 970 355 172 1023 12 n/a n/a 0 2532
2000 865 369 161 1045 15 n/a n/a 0 2455
2001 786 365 162 1085 12 n/a n/a 1 2411
2002 650 373 161 1200 13 n/a n/a 0 2397
2003 650 373 161 1200 13 n/a n/a 0 2397
2004 631 380 161 1210 14 n/a n/a 1 2397
2005 656 396 179 1353 10 n/a n/a 8 2602
2006 614 409 185 1391 11 n/a n/a 5 2615
2007 564 425 164 1433 7 n/a n/a 6 2599
2008 509 407 187 1373 6 n/a n/a 0 2482
2009 483 396 158 1433 9 19 14 0 2512
2010 415 332 161 1423 11 16 43 0 2401
2011 396 355 143 1535 9 24 55 0 2517
2012 356 312 138 1575 4 21 53 0 2459
2013 282 296 138 1573 5 20 57 0 2371
2014 251 275 143 1564 7 14 46 0 2300
2015 264 268 125 1560 8 9 47 0 2281
2016 241 252 106 1617 6 8 44 0 2274
2017 213 254 97 1633 5 7 50 0 2259
2018 215 266 94 1639 5 9 66 0 2294
2019 206 243 101 1587 9 10 72 0 2228
2020 198 232 99 1620 10 16 79 0 2254
2021 205 229 96 1655 13 16 80 0 2294
2022 177 220 86 1640 11 17 73 3 2227
2023 155 215 72 1632 13 19 65 2 2173
2024 139 218 83 1559 7 18 61 4 2089

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at John W. North High

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 1848 70.0 26.4 n/a
1989 1865 72.1 25.8 n/a
1990 1959 74.4 26.3 n/a
1991 2054 80.7 25.4 n/a
1992 2119 82.0 25.8 36.6
1993 2229 89.2 25.0 38.4
1994 2169 84.0 25.8 42.3
1995 2279 87.8 26.0 43.4
1996 2279 87.8 26.0 43.4
1997 2304 87.0 26.5 42
1998 2449 90.4 27.1 39.5
1999 2532 90.6 27.9 38.2
2000 2455 96.5 25.4 36.3
2001 2411 92.2 26.1 40.4
2002 2397 87.9 27.3 43.7
2003 2397 87.9 27.3 43.7
2004 2397 96.8 24.8 40.1
2005 2602 99.9 26.0 48.5
2006 2615 87.0 30.1 42.1
2007 2599 97.2 26.7 54.3
2008 2482 121.7 20.4 43.1
2009 2512 104.1 21.3 63
2010 2401 95.2 25.2 70.6
2011 2517 n/a n/a 58
2012 2459 92.6 26.5 n/a
2013 2371 89.8 26.3 72.3
2014 2300 90.6 25.3 73.2
2015 2281 95.0 24.0 75.4
2016 2274 94.0 24.1 76.3
2017 2259 96.0 23.5 73.6
2018 2294 98.7 23.2 77.9
2019 2228 99.0 22.4 74.7
2020 2254 n/a n/a 75.2
2021 2294 87.6 26.1 83.1
2022 2227 85.9 25.9 86.3
2023 2173 91.6 23.7 87.3
2024 2089 91.8 22.7 53.8

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio John W. North High

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 1848 70.0 26.4 n/a
1989 1865 72.1 25.8 n/a
1990 1959 74.4 26.3 n/a
1991 2054 80.7 25.4 n/a
1992 2119 82.0 25.8 36.6
1993 2229 89.2 25.0 38.4
1994 2169 84.0 25.8 42.3
1995 2279 87.8 26.0 43.4
1996 2279 87.8 26.0 43.4
1997 2304 87.0 26.5 42
1998 2449 90.4 27.1 39.5
1999 2532 90.6 27.9 38.2
2000 2455 96.5 25.4 36.3
2001 2411 92.2 26.1 40.4
2002 2397 87.9 27.3 43.7
2003 2397 87.9 27.3 43.7
2004 2397 96.8 24.8 40.1
2005 2602 99.9 26.0 48.5
2006 2615 87.0 30.1 42.1
2007 2599 97.2 26.7 54.3
2008 2482 121.7 20.4 43.1
2009 2512 104.1 21.3 63
2010 2401 95.2 25.2 70.6
2011 2517 n/a n/a 58
2012 2459 92.6 26.5 n/a
2013 2371 89.8 26.3 72.3
2014 2300 90.6 25.3 73.2
2015 2281 95.0 24.0 75.4
2016 2274 94.0 24.1 76.3
2017 2259 96.0 23.5 73.6
2018 2294 98.7 23.2 77.9
2019 2228 99.0 22.4 74.7
2020 2254 n/a n/a 75.2
2021 2294 87.6 26.1 83.1
2022 2227 85.9 25.9 86.3
2023 2173 91.6 23.7 87.3
2024 2089 91.8 22.7 53.8

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for John W. North High

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2018 $9,064

Data source: California Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on John W. North High

The coronavirus has had a profound impact on education in America. Learning shifted online overnight, attendance numbers dwindled, and enrollment decreased. SchoolDigger.com is making it easier for you to better assess how COVID-19 has impacted your school. Through the collection of pre-pandemic (2019) and current data, SchoolDigger.com is sharing test scores, enrollment numbers and school demographics from schools across the country – and we make it easy to see how impacted schools compare locally and statewide.

Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 1358th of 2133 High schoolsRanks 1119th of 2348 High schools
 16%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
11th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (John W. North High)42.146.7
 4.6%
   11th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (Riverside Unified)55.957.3
 1.4%
   11th Grade English Language Arts/Literacy (California)57.355.4
 1.9%
11th Grade Mathematics (John W. North High)2316.5
 6.4%
   11th Grade Mathematics (Riverside Unified)30.123.7
 6.4%
   11th Grade Mathematics (California)32.227.4
 4.9%
11th Grade Science (John W. North High)12.520.5
 8.1%
   11th Grade Science (Riverside Unified)25.727.2
 1.6%
   11th Grade Science (California)30.431.7
 1.3%
12th Grade Science (John W. North High)10.720.4
 9.7%
   12th Grade Science (Riverside Unified)22.927.4
 4.5%
   12th Grade Science (California)25.626.8
 1.2%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students22282173
 2.5%
African American243215
 11.5%
American Indian913
 44.4%
Asian10172
 28.7%
Hispanic15871632
 2.8%
Pacific Islander1019
 90%
White206155
 24.8%
Two or More Races7265
 9.7%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients74.7%87.3%
 12.6%


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Frequently Asked Questions about John W. North High

Students at John W. North High are 75% Hispanic, 10% African American, 7% White, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more races.

John W. North High is fed by the following schools:

Elementary : Emerson Elementary
Elementary : Fremont Elementary
Elementary : Highgrove Elementary
Elementary : Highland Elementary
Elementary : Longfellow Elementary
Elementary : Patricia Beatty Elementary
Middle : University Heights Middle

John W. North High ranks 1206th of 2323 California high schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 2 stars out of 5.

In the 2023-24 school year, 2,089 students attended John W. North High.


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