Summary
Evergreen Continuation is a small high school in Sylmar, California, serving grades 9–12 in Los Angeles Unified; it enrolls 67 students. The most serious concern is that students’ completion and attendance outcomes are far behind district and state figures: in 2025–2026, graduation was 47%, compared with 90% in the district and 88% statewide; dropout was 26%, versus 6% and 8%; and chronic absenteeism was 70%, versus 23% and 18%, respectively.
Test proficiency is very low across all three subjects, with English language arts the clearest weakness. In 2025–2026, Evergreen’s all-grades proficiency was 3% in ELA, 10% in math, and 6% in science. That is below the state by 46, 28, and 30 percentage points, respectively, and below the district by 45, 30, and 26 points. Among six nearby Los Angeles Unified high schools, Evergreen ranked lowest in ELA and second-lowest in math and science; nearby results ranged from 29% to 78% in ELA, 4% to 37% in math, and 5% to 35% in science. Math is its strongest subject relative to the state, but even that result remains well below state proficiency.
Scores have improved from zero proficiency in all three subjects in 2022–2023, but progress has been uneven and results remain low: by 2025–2026, math had risen 10 points, science 6 points, and ELA 3 points. ELA had reached 13% in 2024–2025 before falling 9 points in the latest year. SchoolDigger ranks Evergreen at the 11th percentile statewide with 1 star, down from the 15th percentile the prior year; its percentile is the lowest among the six nearby ranked Los Angeles Unified high schools. Evergreen’s student-teacher ratio was 16.8 in 2024–2025, below the nearby-school average of 17.7. Its free/reduced lunch eligible share was 90% in 2024–2025, close to the nearby-school average of 91%; this is context, not an explanation for the results.
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