Summary:
Phelan’s 10 schools—three elementary, two middle, three high and two alternative—enroll 6,657 students; nine are in Snowline Joint Unified, and Mojave River Academy - Marble City District is separate. Across the schools, average proficiency is 31% in ELA, 17% in math and 26% in science, all below California’s results. The clearest overall finding is that Heritage is the only school above the state in all three subjects, while most of the others are below.
Heritage leads with 61% ELA, 59% math and 58% science proficiency—12, 20 and 23 points above the state, respectively. Its lead over the next-highest school is 11 points in ELA, 35 in math and 26 in science. Serrano High is next in ELA at 50%, just under one point above the state; Baldy Mesa Elementary is next in math at 24%, and Serrano is next in science at 32%. At the low end, Eagle Summit Community Day has the lowest ELA result, 6%; Chaparral High has the lowest reported math and science results, 2% and 10%. Eagle Summit’s science score is state-suppressed.
Average results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: by 1 point in ELA, 1 in math and 7 in science, though Snowline Academy declined in all three subjects and Heritage’s ELA score fell 2 points. SchoolDigger gives Heritage four stars and a 71st-percentile rank, down from the 76th percentile in each of the prior two years; other ranked schools mostly fall between the 13th and 48th percentiles. Context does not follow a simple performance pattern: Heritage’s student–teacher ratio is 23.6, compared with 14.1 at Chaparral and 7.9 at Eagle Summit. All schools report free/reduced lunch eligible rates for 2024–2025, ranging from 54% at Heritage to 85% at Phelan Elementary. Absenteeism is another difference: it is 8% at Heritage, compared with 58% at Chaparral and 81% at Eagle Summit.
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