Summary:
The high-school list for Julian Union High has one school, Julian High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 112 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency results were 47% in English language arts (ELA), 47% in math, and 29% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38%, and 36%. The clearest strength is math: the school was 9 points above the state.
There are no other schools in this area to identify as leaders or trailers; compared with California, Julian High’s results are strongest in math and weaker in ELA and science. Among 11th graders, math was 15 points above the state, while ELA was 10 points below and science 9 points below. Completion measures look favorable: the graduation rate was 95%, 7 points above the state, and the dropout rate was 3%, 6 points below. In contrast, chronic absenteeism was 37%, compared with 18% statewide—a 19-point gap.
Math improved sharply, rising from 22% in 2024–2025 to 47% in 2025–2026, a gain of 25 points; the state gained 1 point. Science also rose, from 21% to 29%, while ELA edged down slightly, from 47% to 47%, as the state’s ELA result increased. SchoolDigger ranked the school 824th of 2,137 schools, in the 61st percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026, up from 1,159th of 2,162, in the 46th percentile with 2 stars the year before, but below its 67th-percentile standing in 2023–2024. The student–teacher ratio was 16:1 in 2024–2025, and 55% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. With only one school listed, the data cannot support school-to-school comparisons.
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