Summary
Corning Union High is a grades 9–12 school in Corning, California, with 974 students—the largest enrollment among nine nearby schools with enrollment data. Its latest results show a contrast: graduation is high at 98%, and chronic absenteeism is lower than in its district and statewide, at 14.9% compared with 17.8% and 18.3%. The most important concern is that proficiency remains well below California’s in all three tested subjects, especially math, where 7% of students are proficient compared with 38% statewide.
Corning’s proficiency results are higher than those of the Corning Union High district in ELA, math and science: 35%, 7% and 20%, versus 30%, 6% and 18%. But the school trails the state by 14 points in ELA, 32 in math and 16 in science. It also falls below nearby traditional high schools in all three subjects. The average for Hamilton High, Orland High and Los Molinos High is 52% in ELA, 26% in math and 28% in science—17, 19 and 8 points above Corning. Science is closest to those schools’ average; math is the clearest weakness. Nearby schools include different school types, so not all comparisons are like-for-like.
Over the reported period, Corning’s ELA proficiency fell 3 points and math fell 5, while science rose 5; state results increased in all three subjects, widening the overall gaps. SchoolDigger ranks Corning in the 26th statewide percentile with 1 star for 2025–2026, down from the 41st percentile two years earlier; it ranks fifth among eight nearby schools with a current ranking. SchoolDigger’s student-group rankings also flag lower results: the school ranks in the 6th percentile for how well it serves Special Education Students and the 8th percentile for White Students, compared with the 26th percentile overall. Its 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 17.9. In that same school year, 82% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, a measure that provides context but does not explain the results.
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