Altus Schools East County District

Altus Schools East County District has one listed school in California: Altus Schools East County, serving grades 7–12 with 287 students. Compared with state results in 2025–26, the school was behind in all three tested subjects, with its largest shortfall in math: 12% of students were proficient, compared with 38% statewide, a gap of 27 points.

There is no second school in the district list to compare, so no in-district top or bottom school; within the results, science is the relative bright spot and math the clearest concern. All-grades science proficiency was 27% at the school versus 36% statewide, 9 points lower, and the school was above the state in grades 11 and 12: 46% versus 38% in grade 11 and 40% versus 33% in grade 12. The all-grades ELA rate was 32% versus 49% statewide, 18 points lower. Science results varied notably by grade, while ELA and math were below state rates in every grade reported.

Results moved in different directions from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA proficiency fell by 7 points and math by 2, while science rose by 9. The school’s science gap narrowed from 15 points to 9, but its ELA gap widened from 10 to 18 points and its math gap from 24 to 27 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 43rd percentile, 1,226 of 2,137 schools, with 2 stars in 2025–26; it was at the 37th percentile the prior year. Other context includes a 35.3:1 student-teacher ratio and 73% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. The 2025–26 graduation rate was 72%, 16 points below the state, while chronic absenteeism was 22%, 4 points above it.