Summary
Apollo High is a small school in San Jose’s East Side Union High School District, serving 141 students in grades 11–12. Its 2025–2026 test proficiency was very low in English language arts (ELA), math and science, though graduation and attendance measures were notably stronger. The central finding for families comparing academic results is that Apollo scored below the state, its district and every nearby school with results in all three subjects.
Graduation and attendance are the school’s clearest strengths compared with nearby schools, the state and the district. Apollo’s graduation rate was 95% in 2025–2026, above California’s 88% and the district’s 81%; it also exceeded every nearby school with a reported rate, including Yerba Buena High at 94%. Apollo’s dropout rate was 5%, below the state’s 8% and district’s 14%, while chronic absenteeism was 8%, compared with 18% statewide and 24% in the district. By contrast, proficiency was 20% in ELA, 0% in math and 1% in science. The lowest nearby results were 41%, 12% and 18%, respectively; Apollo was below those scores as well.
Test results have declined over the four years shown: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency fell 17 percentage points, math 5 points and science 8 points. SchoolDigger ranked Apollo in the 8th percentile statewide with 0 stars in 2025–2026, down 18 percentile points from 2022–2023 and the lowest current-year percentile among nearby schools with rankings. The school’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 19.1, in the middle of the nearby range, and 67% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year, around the middle of comparable nearby schools. One earlier exception in SchoolDigger’s group rankings: in 2023–2024, Apollo ranked in the 62nd percentile for how well it served English Language Learner students, compared with the 18th percentile overall. Apollo’s 12th-grade science result is suppressed, so it is unknown.
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