High Schools in Palo Verde Unified

Palo Verde High and Twin Palms Continuation are the two high schools in Palo Verde Unified, and both serve grades 9–12. Their 2025–26 all-grade assessment averages were 23% in English language arts, 8% in math, and 12% in science, compared with statewide results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. Those averages conceal a major difference between the schools: Palo Verde High outscored Twin Palms Continuation by 40 percentage points in ELA, 16 points in math, and 20 points in science.

Palo Verde High stands out as the stronger performer on every reported subject and on graduation and dropout measures. Its 2025–26 scores were 43% in ELA, 16% in math, and 23% in science; Twin Palms Continuation scored 3%, 0%, and 2%. Palo Verde’s graduation rate was 97%, versus 83% at Twin Palms, while its dropout rate was 3% versus 14%. Attendance is a concern at both schools relative to the state: chronic absenteeism was 29% at Palo Verde and 86% at Twin Palms, compared with 18% statewide. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 rankings also place Palo Verde at the 36th percentile with 2 stars and Twin Palms at the 1st percentile with 0 stars.

Recent assessment trends reinforce the contrast: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Palo Verde gained 13 percentage points in ELA, 10 in math, and 8 in science, while Twin Palms fell 3 points in ELA and math and less than 1 point in science. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 77% of Palo Verde’s enrollment and 95% of Twin Palms’; student-teacher ratios were similar, at 20.9 and 20.3. These are contextual observations, not explanations for school outcomes. Twin Palms is a continuation school with 85 students, so its results may be sensitive to small tested groups; both schools’ 12th-grade science results are suppressed.