Alpaugh Unified

Alpaugh Unified has two schools serving 345 students: Alpaugh Elementary serves kindergarten through grade 8, and Alpaugh -Senior High serves grades 9–12. The latest results are for 2025–2026, and the schools’ strongest contrast is in science: the high school is essentially level with the state, while results in English language arts and mathematics are substantially below state rates.

The high school stands out in science, with 36% proficiency compared with 9% at the elementary school and 36% statewide. It also leads in ELA, at 30% versus 23% at the elementary school, though both are below the state’s 49%. Mathematics reverses the pattern: the elementary school’s 17% is 11 percentage points above the high school’s 6%, but still below the 38% state rate. Graduation outcomes are another bright spot for the high school: its graduation rate was 100%, compared with 88% statewide and 79% districtwide, while its dropout rate was 0% versus 8% statewide and 20% districtwide. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their All Grades results are not like-grade comparisons.

ELA and mathematics improved on average across the two schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose from 24% to 27%, and mathematics from 6% to 12%; elementary science moved the other way, falling from 15% to 9%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentiles also rebounded: the elementary school rose from 2 to 14, and the high school from 23 to 41, though the high school remained below its prior 44. Context differs, too: in 2024–2025, the elementary school had 22.9 students per teacher versus 14.1 at the high school, and both reported free/reduced lunch eligible—79% and 82%, respectively. Both schools also had chronic absenteeism above the state rate in 2025–2026: 21% at the elementary school and 22% at the high school, versus 18% statewide.