Summary:
Three schools in Calipatria, California, serve kindergarten through grade 12: Fremont Primary (K–4; 348 students), Bill E. Young Junior Middle (grades 5–8; 322 students), and Calipatria High (grades 9–12; 345 students). The key overall finding is that all three are below California’s all-grades results in both ELA (49%) and math (38%), with the largest gaps at Fremont in ELA (21%) and Calipatria High in math (13%).
Calipatria High leads all-grades ELA at 46%, just ahead of Bill E. Young at 45%; Fremont is lower at 21%. Bill E. Young leads math at 32%, 6 percentage points above Fremont’s 26%, while Calipatria High is at 13%. The grade-level picture has notable bright spots: Bill E. Young’s sixth-grade ELA is 57%, 9 points above the state, and Calipatria High’s twelfth-grade science is 70%, 37 points above the state. SchoolDigger ranks Bill E. Young at the 55th statewide percentile (three stars), Calipatria High at the 40th (two stars), and Fremont at the 13th (one star).
Recent trends favor Bill E. Young: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its all-grades ELA rose 3 percentage points, math 9 points, and science 5 points. Calipatria High’s science rose 20 points, while its ELA fell 3 points and math fell 2; Fremont’s ELA fell 4 points and math was nearly unchanged. The 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 92% at Fremont, 91% at Bill E. Young, and 84% at Calipatria High; student–teacher ratios were 19.8, 15.8, and 15.7, respectively. These are context, not explanations for differences in results. Because all-grades figures combine different grade spans, grade-specific comparisons are more useful when choosing between schools.
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