Summary:
KIPP Esperanza High District has one high school, KIPP Esperanza High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 194 students. With just one school, there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. The school’s 2025–26 graduation rate was 77%, compared with 88% statewide; dropout was 19% versus 8%, and chronic absenteeism was 29% versus 18%. The clearest concern is science: all-grades proficiency was 23%, 13 percentage points below the state.
KIPP Esperanza High is both the area’s only school and its only standout, with a mix of stronger and weaker results against California. Its strongest all-grades result was ELA, where 53% were proficient, 4 points above the state’s 49%; its weakest was science, 23% versus 36%, a 13-point shortfall. Grade-level comparisons also differ by subject: 11th-grade math was 37% versus 32% statewide, 5 points higher, while 11th-grade ELA was 53% versus 57%, 4 points lower. 10th-grade science was 22%, 11 points below the state’s 33%.
Results improved over the two supplied years in ELA and math, but science did not keep pace with statewide gains. ELA rose 6 percentage points at the school, compared with less than 1 point statewide, and math rose 4 points versus 1; science rose 1 point while the state gained 3, widening the school’s science gap by 2 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 1,220th of 2,159 schools in 2023–24 (43rd percentile, 2 stars) and 977th of 2,137 in 2025–26 (54th percentile, 3 stars), a 243-place and 11-percentile-point improvement, though it slipped 4 places and 1 percentile point from the prior year. Context figures include a 10.2 student–teacher ratio and 96% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25.
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