Summary:
Calipatria Unified has four schools in Calipatria, serving kindergarten through grade 12: two K–4 schools, one grades 5–8 school, and one grades 9–12 school. Enrollment ranges from 65 students at Grace Smith Elementary to 348 at Fremont Primary. In 2025–26, no school’s All Grades ELA or math result reached the state result; the four-school averages were 31% in ELA versus 49% statewide and 23% in math versus 38%. The most important takeaway is that results vary sharply by school and subject, with no single school leading across the board.
Calipatria High led All Grades ELA at 46%, just 1 point ahead of Bill E. Young Junior Middle at 45%; Grace Smith was lowest at 13%, 33 points behind the leader. Bill E. Young led math at 32%, 6 points ahead of Fremont at 26%; Calipatria High was lowest at 13%, 9 points below Grace Smith’s 22%. Among the two schools reporting science, Calipatria High scored 31%, versus 21% at Bill E. Young and 36% statewide. Grade-level comparisons also reveal exceptions: Fremont leads Grace Smith in grade 3 ELA and math by 14 points in each, while Grace leads grade 4 math by 4 points.
Recent results point in different directions across schools. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, the four-school average fell 7 points in ELA and 2 points in math; Grace Smith had the steepest declines, down 23 points in ELA and 14 in math, while Bill E. Young rose 3 points in ELA and 9 in math. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Bill E. Young rose from 32 to 55, while Grace Smith’s fell from 61 to 5. As context, in 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were similar at Grace Smith and Fremont—92.3% and 92.0%—while their student-teacher ratios were 13.0 and 19.8, respectively. All Grades results cover different grade spans, so they are not direct grade-matched comparisons across schools.
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