Summary
Cupertino High is a public high school in Cupertino, California, serving grades 9–12 and 1,800 students in the Fremont Union High district. Most importantly, its 2025–26 results show high proficiency in all three tested subjects.
The school’s strongest relative showing is in science and its smallest is in English language arts (ELA). Proficiency was 85% in ELA, 82% in math and 82% in science, placing the school third among seven nearby conventional high schools in each subject. Compared with nearby schools’ averages, its results were higher by 11 points in ELA, 19 in math and 20 in science. It also scored above district results by 6, 10 and 13 points, respectively, and above state results by 36, 44 and 46 points. The school’s 97.7% graduation rate was above the district’s 95.9% and the state’s 87.9%; chronic absenteeism was 8.7%, below the district’s 10.3% and the state’s 18.3%.
Cupertino’s advantage over the state remains substantial, though the gap narrowed between 2022–23 and 2025–26 by 5 points in ELA, 4 in math and 2 in science. SchoolDigger ranked it 36th of 2,137 schools, in the 98th percentile with five stars; it has remained in the 98th percentile for four reported years. Its 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 22.9, compared with a nearby-school average of 21.9. In 2024–25, 10% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, versus a 21% average among nearby schools with the same measure; California is a statewide-free-meals state, so this figure does not indicate whether students can receive free meals. SchoolDigger’s statewide effectiveness percentile shows a notable difference in group results: Hispanic students ranked at the 70th percentile, below the school’s overall 98th, while Special Education Students reached the 100th percentile in 2025–26, up from 93rd in 2023–24.
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