Summary:
Calipatria Unified has one listed high school, Calipatria High, serving grades 9–12 and 345 students. Its outcomes are mixed: the 2025–2026 graduation rate was 95%, 7 points above the state, and the dropout rate was 5%, 4 points below; however, chronic absenteeism was 28%, 10 points higher than the state. The clearest academic concern is mathematics: 13% of students were proficient, compared with 38% statewide, a 26-point gap.
There is no meaningful top-to-bottom school comparison because Calipatria High is the only school in the list; it is both highest and lowest by default. Within its results, ELA was closest to the state: 46% proficient versus 49%, a 3-point gap, while science was 31% versus 36%, a 5-point gap. Mathematics was much weaker, and also 15 points below the district result. Grade-level science results varied sharply: 12th grade reached 70%, 37 points above the state’s 33%, while 10th and 11th grades were 15% and 23%, respectively, below their same-grade state results by 18 and 15 points. These subject and grade comparisons describe this school, not differences among local schools.
Recent results show a striking science improvement but no broad rise across subjects. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, science proficiency rose from 11% to 31%, a 20-point gain, narrowing the gap with the state from 22 points to 5. ELA fell from 49% to 46%, while math slipped from 15% to 13%; the math gap widened from 22 to 26 points. SchoolDigger placed Calipatria High at the 40th percentile statewide in 2025–2026, rank 1,288 of 2,137, similar to its 39th-percentile position the prior year. For context, its 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 15.7, and 84% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year.
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