Best Public Schools in Pinon Hills, CA

Pinon Hills, California, has one listed school, Pinon Hills Elementary, serving grades K–5 and enrolling 566 students. The school’s 2025–2026 results were below both the state and Snowline Joint Unified in all three tested subjects; chronic absenteeism was also higher than both benchmarks. The most important finding is that test results remain well below state levels across ELA, math, and science.

There is no within-city school leader or lower-performing school to compare, but results vary considerably by grade. Across all grades, the school scored 21% in ELA, 19% in math, and 17% in science—respectively 28, 19, and 19 percentage points below the state. The ELA score was 14 points below the district; math was 2 points below, and science 11 points below. Grade 3 math is a relative bright spot: 34%, 3 points above the district, though still 13 points below the state. Grade 4 is the clearest concern: math was 7%, 16 points below the district and 35 below the state; ELA was also lowest in grade 4, at 14%, versus 27% in grade 3 and 22% in grade 5.

Math and science improved year over year, while ELA dipped slightly: the school’s scores rose by 2 points in math and 4 in science, and fell by less than a point in ELA. The state gap narrowed by about 1 point in math and science, but widened by about 1 point in ELA. SchoolDigger ranked the school 5,147 of 5,804 statewide in 2025–2026, at the 11th percentile with one star; its percentile rose from 4 in 2023–2024 and then held steady. Other context includes a 23.5 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 84% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 31%, compared with 25% in the district and 18% statewide.