Summary:
Lucerne Valley Unified serves 1,179 students across four schools, from kindergarten through grade 12: an elementary school, a middle school, and two high schools. In 2025–26, the three schools with reported test scores were below California in all-grades English, math, and science; their average math result was 13%, compared with 38% statewide—a 25-point gap. That math gap is the clearest area-wide concern.
Lucerne Valley High had the strongest reported all-grades English result, at 41%, while Lucerne Valley Middle was next at 32%; both were below the 49% state rate. Lucerne Valley Elementary led in math at 17%, but Middle had the lowest result, at 10%. Middle narrowly led science, with 19.6% compared with High’s 19.3%; all three schools were well below the 36% state result. High also reported a 100% graduation rate and 0% dropout rate, but chronic absenteeism was 33%, versus 18% statewide. Mountain View High reported 73% graduation, 27% dropout, and 90% chronic absenteeism. It has just 16 students, and its test scores are state-suppressed, so it cannot be included in test comparisons.
Results changed unevenly over the two years of available test data. Middle made the largest English gain, rising 13 points to 32%; across the three schools, average English rose 3 points and science rose 4, while math barely changed and remained furthest behind the state. SchoolDigger’s latest rank percentiles were higher than in 2023–24 for Elementary (16th, up 7 points) and Middle (16th, up 9), while High’s 32nd percentile was 4 points below its prior year. The schools’ 2024–25 student–teacher ratios ranged from 15.1 at High to 21.1 at Elementary. All reported the same low-income measure, free/reduced lunch eligible, for 2024–25: from 81% at Mountain View to 91% at Middle; these figures describe school context, not a cause of results. All-grades comparisons span different grades, so they are not like-for-like comparisons between schools.
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