Mojave River Academy - Oro Grande

Mojave River Academy - Oro Grande is an alternative K–12 school in Victorville, serving 862 students in the High Desert area. Its 2025–2026 proficiency results were below California’s in English, math and science. The most important concern is that students’ test proficiency remains far below state levels in all three subjects.

Compared with nearby schools that had results for the same year, the school was fourth of seven in each subject, with ELA its strongest relative showing: about 20% were proficient, just above the nearby median of 19%. Math proficiency was about 3%, below the nearby median of 6%; science was 8%, below the median of 13%. Against California, ELA was 30 percentage points lower (20% versus 49%), math 35 points lower (3% versus 38%), and science 28 points lower (8% versus 36%). So science is closest to the state result, while ELA looks strongest against local schools. The supplied data does not include test results for the school’s district, or a SchoolDigger school rank or star rating.

Scores rose only slightly over four years and did not keep pace with statewide gains: Oro Grande’s ELA result increased by less than 1 point, math by 1 point and science by 1 point, while the state’s scores rose by 3, 4 and 6 points, respectively. Completion measures also merit attention: the 2025–2026 graduation rate was 74%, 14 points below the state’s 88%, and the dropout rate was 12%, compared with 8% statewide. Chronic absenteeism, in contrast, was 6%, versus 18% statewide. The latest student-teacher ratio was 22.2:1 in 2024–2025, near the middle of the nearby-school range; 86% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year, the third-highest share among the 11 schools compared.