High Schools in Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified

The two public high schools in Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified serve grades 9–12: Dos Palos High enrolls 639 students, and Westside High enrolls 71. The schools show very different academic results: in 2025–2026, Dos Palos High had higher proficiency in all three subjects, while both schools had graduation rates above the state rate. The most important finding is the sharp difference between the schools’ proficiency results, especially in English language arts and science.

Dos Palos High stands out for stronger proficiency and graduation results: 46% of students were proficient in ELA, 8% in math, and 27% in science, compared with 4%, 4%, and 4% at Westside High. The ELA gap was 42 percentage points and the science gap was 23 points; math proficiency was low at both schools, with a 4-point gap. Graduation rates were 99% at Dos Palos and 93% at Westside, versus 88% statewide. Attendance is a major concern at Westside: chronic absenteeism was 84%, compared with 28% at Dos Palos and 18% statewide.

Across the two reported years, the schools’ average proficiency rose by 5 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 5 in science, but improvement was uneven: Dos Palos High’s math proficiency fell by 1 point, while Westside’s math and science each rose by 4 points. SchoolDigger ranked Dos Palos High in the 36th percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 52nd in 2023–2024; Westside ranked in the 6th percentile, up from the 1st in 2024–2025. In 2024–2025, Westside had a lower student-teacher ratio (14.2 versus 19.3) and a higher share of students eligible for free/reduced lunch (93% versus 89% at Dos Palos); these are context, not explanations for the outcome differences. Westside’s small enrollment and its suppressed 12th-grade science result are reasons to read its figures with care.