Banning Senior High

Phineas Banning High School is a public high school located in Wilmington, California and is one of the many schools that make up the Los Angeles Unified School District. Named in honor of General Phineas Banning who was one of the founders of Wilmington in the late 1800's, Banning High School offers secondary education for 9th through 12th grade students in a single track calendar year. The school's mission is basically centered in educating ethnically and economically diverse urban youth in critical thinking and problem solving, while also providing vocational and academic options to ensure a successful transition to the future as responsible adults.

School Statistics

Banning High School teachers have an 84% average rating in terms of full credentials and 6% emergency credentials based on the data from the CA Dept. of Education. With 16% of the faculty teaching on their first year, their average experience in teaching is 9, while the average years teaching in the district is 9.

Banning High School's average class size is 29 for grade 9, 32 for grade 10, 30 for grade 11, and 31 for grade 12. The Student-Staff Ratio is 86 for Students per paraprofessional staff, 251 for Students per office/clerical staff, and 135 for Students per other classified staff.

The student ethnicity in Banning is quite diverse, with majority of the Banning Pilots carrying Hispanics/Latino roots (87%), 6% are African Americans, 2% are Filipinos, 2% are Pacific Islanders, 2% are Whites, and the rest are Asians and American Indians.