West Shores High

West Shores High is a public school in Salton City, California, serving 503 students in grades 7–12 in an area with no other schools within 20 miles. Its 2025–26 graduation rate was 99%, well above the district’s 93% and the state’s 88%. The most urgent concern is chronic absenteeism: nearly half of students were chronically absent, compared with 37% in the district and 18% statewide.

There are no nearby-school results to compare, so the available comparisons are with the district and state. English language arts is the school’s strongest tested subject relative to the state: 32% of students were proficient, 17 percentage points below the state. Science proficiency was 15%, 21 points below the state, while math was weakest at 8%, 30 points below. ELA and science were close to district results, each less than a point below; math was 11 points below the district. West Shores’ 11th-grade ELA result was a relative bright spot: 50% were proficient, 7 points above the district but 7 points below the state.

Results over time are mixed. Graduation rose from 81% in 2021–22 to 99% in 2025–26, but chronic absenteeism declined by only 2 points, from 50% to 48%, while the state rate fell from 30% to 18%. Math proficiency was nearly flat from 2022–23 to 2025–26, rising from 8% to 8%, while ELA and science improved. SchoolDigger rates the school 2 stars and places it at the 32nd percentile statewide, up from the 20th percentile in 2020–21 but below its 42nd-percentile standing in 2018–19. The student–teacher ratio was 15.5 in 2024–25, and 94% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. In SchoolDigger’s measure of how well the school serves English Language Learner Students, it ranked at the 3rd percentile in 2022–23, versus the school’s overall 28th percentile that year. For Disabled Students, it ranked at the 3rd percentile in 2021–22, compared with the school’s overall 21st percentile.