Best Public Schools in Lebec, CA

Lebec, California, has two relatively small schools serving grades 5–12: El Tejon Elementary serves grades 5–8, and Frazier Mountain High serves grades 9–12; in 2024–25 they enrolled 221 and 244 students, respectively. Their 2025–26 results show a clear subject-by-subject difference: the most important finding is a sharp ELA split, with Frazier well above the state and El Tejon well below it.

Frazier Mountain High leads the two schools in all three all-grades subjects, with its strongest showing in ELA: 67% proficiency, compared with 39% at El Tejon Elementary, a 29-point gap. Frazier was 18 points above the state in ELA, while El Tejon was 11 points below. Their math and science results were closer: Frazier scored 30% in math and 34% in science, versus El Tejon’s 27% and 31%; both schools were below state results in those subjects. El Tejon has grade-level bright spots: seventh-grade math was 2 points above state, and fifth-grade science was 1 point above.

Results moved in different directions by school and subject. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Frazier gained 10 points in ELA and 10 in math but fell 2 in science; El Tejon gained 5 in math and 3 in science while falling 2 in ELA. SchoolDigger gives Frazier a 66th-percentile ranking and 3 stars, compared with El Tejon’s 44th percentile and 2 stars; these rankings compare schools with their respective statewide ranking pools. In 2024–25, Frazier’s student–teacher ratio was 21.1 versus El Tejon’s 19.9. Both reported free/reduced lunch eligible as their low-income measure that year: 75% at Frazier and 84% at El Tejon, a 9-point difference; these figures are context, not an explanation for achievement. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not grade-matched comparisons.