Victor Valley Union High

The Victor Valley Union High district includes 11 schools serving grades 7-12 in a high-desert region of California, where the vast majority of students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Performance varies dramatically across schools, with University Preparatory standing out as exceptional, achieving near-perfect graduation and very high test scores, while Victor Valley High, Adelanto High, and Silverado High—the district's largest traditional high schools—struggle significantly, particularly in mathematics. Other strong options include Cobalt Institute of Math and Science and the Victor Valley Virtual Academy, which performs well academically despite its online format.

Key challenges for the district include very low math proficiency at most schools, poor performance at the middle school level (Larrea Middle and Imogene Garner Hook Junior High), and severe chronic absenteeism at the alternative Goodwill High and Goodwill Independent Study programs, which have the district's lowest academic rankings.