Summary:
The KIPP Esperanza High District has one California school: KIPP Esperanza High, a grades 9–12 high school with 194 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades proficiency was 53% in English language arts (ELA), 37% in math and 23% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38% and 36%. Its clearest academic strength was ELA, while science was the largest concern: proficiency was 13 percentage points below the state.
There is no local top or bottom school to compare because this district list contains only one school. Against state results, the school was 4 points ahead in all-grades ELA and 2 points behind in math; its 13-point science gap was notably larger. Grade-level results add nuance: 11th-grade math was 37% versus 32% statewide, a 5-point advantage, while 11th-grade ELA was 53% versus 57%, a 4-point gap. Tenth-grade science was 22% versus 33%, an 11-point gap. Other reported outcomes were also less favorable than statewide figures: graduation was 77% versus 88%, dropout was 19% versus 8%, and chronic absenteeism was 29% versus 18%—each a gap of about 11 points in the unfavorable direction.
ELA and math improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but science made less progress: ELA rose 6 points and moved from 1 point below the state to 4 points above it; math rose 4 points and narrowed its state gap from 5 points to 2. Science increased by 1 point, while its gap to the state widened from 11 to 13 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school at 1,220 of 2,159 schools (43rd percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–24 and 977 of 2,137 (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–26, an improvement of 243 places and 11 percentile points; the latest ranking was four places lower than the prior year. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 10.2 in 2024–25, and 96% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures offer context, not an explanation for the school’s results.
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