Summary
Alessandro High is a 335-student high school in Hemet, California, serving grades 9–12 as part of Hemet Unified. The most urgent concern is attendance: in 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 90%, compared with 28% in the district and 18% statewide, though it had fallen 6 points since 2021–22. The central academic finding is that proficiency remains very low across all tested subjects: in 2025–26, 15% were proficient in ELA, 7% in math and 6% in science—35, 31 and 30 points below state results, respectively.
Compared with nearby schools, ELA is the clearest weakness: Alessandro had the lowest 11th-grade ELA result among nearby schools reporting that grade, and its all-grades ELA proficiency of 15% was far below the nearby-school average of 52%. Math is a relative bright spot, but still weak: its 7% proficiency was below the nearby average of 23%, and it ranked second-lowest in 11th-grade math, ahead of Mountain View High. Science proficiency was 6%, versus a nearby average of 32%; among nearby schools with numeric 12th-grade results, only Tahquitz High was lower. Compared with the district, Alessandro was 21 points lower in ELA, 13 in math and 15 in science.
Proficiency has risen since 2022–23—by 1 point in ELA, 6 in math and 2 in science—but only math has narrowed its gap with the state, from 34 points to 31; ELA and science gaps widened. Graduation also improved, from 74% in 2021–22 to 83% in 2025–26, but remained 5 points below the state and 11 below the district; dropout was 14%, versus 8% statewide and 4% districtwide. SchoolDigger ranked Alessandro at the 17th percentile statewide and awarded it 1 star in 2025–26. Its student-teacher ratio was 15.1 in 2024–25, and 92% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year. SchoolDigger’s subgroup rankings show a notably stronger result for English Language Learner Students: the school ranked at the 56th percentile for that group in 2023–24, versus the 15th percentile overall. For White Students, it ranked at the 2nd percentile in 2025–26, compared with the 17th percentile overall.
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