Summary
Kerman Unified Online is a 140-student online school serving grades 7–12 in Kerman, California. In 2025–2026, proficiency was low in all three tested subjects, and the SchoolDigger statewide ranking was at the 15th percentile, or 1 star, compared with the 40th percentile for Kerman Unified. The clearest concern is mathematics: no students tested proficient in 2025–2026, compared with 29% in the district and 38% statewide.
Science was the school’s strongest subject relative to the district, state, and nearby-school averages, though its results remained low: 6% were proficient, versus 22% in the district, 36% statewide, and a 16% average among nearby schools with reported results. ELA proficiency was 16%, compared with 44% in the district and 49% statewide; it was 15 points below the nearby-school average. Math was also at the bottom of the nearby group, tied with four nearby schools at 0%; the other six reported rates from 5% to 31%. Graduation is a bright spot: 94% of students graduated in 2025–2026, above the state’s 88% and close to the district’s 96%. However, chronic absenteeism was 49%, compared with 17% in the district and 18% statewide.
Results over time remain a concern: ELA fell from 21% in 2022–2023 to 16% in 2025–2026, and math declined from about 1% to 0%; science improved from 2% to 6%, despite falling from its 7% peak in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger ranked the school third-lowest among nine nearby schools with current rankings. The student-teacher ratio was 51.8 in 2024–2025, the highest among nearby schools; the next-highest was 22.8. In that same school year, 94% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger’s ranking for Male Students fell from the 20th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 2nd percentile in 2025–2026, compared with the school’s overall 15th percentile, indicating a sharp decline in its relative standing for that group. In 2022–2023, its ranking for English Language Learner Students was at the 59th percentile, compared with the overall 17th percentile; this is a single-year comparison.
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