Best Public Schools in Yermo, CA

Yermo, California, has three schools in Silver Valley Unified, serving a range of grades: Yermo Elementary covers K–8, Silver Valley High serves high-school grades, and Calico Continuation High serves grades 6–12; enrollment ranges from 45 to 392 students. Because the schools cover different grade spans, their All Grades results are not perfectly like-for-like. Even so, the clearest overall finding is a wide spread in 2025–26 proficiency: the highest-to-lowest gap was 50 points in ELA, 28 in math, and 38 in science.

Silver Valley High led all three All Grades subjects, while Calico Continuation High was lowest in each. Silver Valley scored 66% in ELA and 38% in science, compared with Calico’s 16% and 0%; Silver Valley’s math result was 32%, versus Calico’s 4%. Yermo Elementary fell between them, at 32% in ELA, 24% in math, and 26% in science. In the directly comparable 11th-grade results, Silver Valley was ahead of Calico by 46 points in ELA, 26 in math, and 42 in science. Silver Valley’s ELA and science were above state results, but its All Grades math was below the state’s 38%; Yermo’s 7th-grade math was a bright spot, at 39%, just above the state’s 38%.

Recent results were mixed rather than consistently improving: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Silver Valley rose 4 points in ELA, 1 in math, and 12 in science; Yermo fell 3 in ELA and 2 in math but rose 3 in science; Calico fell 13 in ELA and rose 4 in math, with no earlier science result supplied. SchoolDigger’s rankings also moved in different directions: Silver Valley went from the 83rd to the 71st percentile, Yermo from the 20th to the 23rd, and Calico from the 40th to the 14th. As context, all three reported free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL) figures for 2024–25: 65% at Silver Valley, 86% at Yermo, and 93% at Calico; Silver Valley and Yermo had similar student-teacher ratios, 17.1 and 18.1. Calico’s 73% chronic absenteeism contrasts with its 100% graduation rate, so those measures tell notably different stories.