1,438 students attended whitney high school during the 2007–08 school year; of these students, there were 361 freshmen, 424 sophomores, 355 juniors, and 298 seniors. the student body is predominantly caucasian (70.51%), where the largest minorities represented are hispanics (9.18%) and asians (5.35%). 9.6% of the school's students marked their race as either "mixed" or did not respond at all. 14% of the student body reported themselves socio-economically disadvantaged, 8% reported themselves as having a disability, and 3% of the school population reported themselves as esl students. 96.1% of the whitney student body graduated in its first school year; in the 2005–06 school year, every student passed the requirements for graduation. the school's first dropout students were in the 2006–07 school year; 1.5% of the school's students were part of that group.