Wheatland Union High

The three high schools in Wheatland Union High serve grades 7–12 overall and enroll 1,126 students, from 8 at Wheatland Community Day High to 1,063 at Wheatland Union High. The reported 11th-grade results show a large gap between the two schools with available scores: Wheatland Union High leads Edward P. Duplex by 54 points in ELA, 23 in math, and 26 in science. Community Day’s test scores are suppressed, so its academic results cannot be compared. The most important finding is that reported academic outcomes differ sharply between the two schools with score data.

Wheatland Union High is the academic leader among schools with reported results: its 11th-grade proficiency is 54% in ELA, 23% in math, and 30% in science, compared with 0%, 0%, and 5% at Duplex. Its all-grades ELA result is also 5 points above the state, while its math and science results are 15 and 8 points below. Duplex stands out for graduation, at 100%, versus 99% at Wheatland Union High and 88% statewide, but its chronic absenteeism is 89%. Wheatland Union High’s absenteeism is 14%, below the state’s 18%; Community Day’s is 68%. SchoolDigger ranks Wheatland Union High at the 52nd percentile and Duplex at the 2nd percentile.

Wheatland Union High’s results fell in all three subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA declined 8 points, math 2, and science 9. Duplex’s ELA fell 4 points, math was unchanged, and science rose 4 points—a modest exception to the broader downward pattern. School size and staffing also vary: student-teacher ratios are 20.3 at Wheatland Union High, 26.1 at Duplex, and 6.5 at Community Day. In 2024–25, the free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 75% and 71% at Wheatland Union High and Duplex, respectively; these figures provide context, not an explanation for the different results.