Summary
Ygnacio Valley High is a public high school in Concord, in the East Bay, serving grades 9–12 with 1,059 students in the Mt. Diablo Unified district. Its graduation rate is a bright spot: 96% in 2025–2026, compared with 88% statewide and 94% in the district. But chronic absenteeism was high at 31%, versus 18% statewide and 19% in the district. The most important concern is that proficiency remains below state and district levels in all three tested subjects, even after recent gains.
English is the school’s strongest subject relative to comparison schools, while math is its weakest. In 2025–2026, 37% of students were proficient in English language arts, compared with 49% in the state and 49% in the district; math proficiency was 17%, versus 38% statewide and 39% districtwide; science was 21%, versus 36% and 35%, respectively. Ygnacio Valley also fell below the averages for six nearby high schools serving grades 9–12: 49% in English, 31% in math, and 32% in science. Its gaps from those averages were 12, 14, and 10 percentage points, respectively. Among nearby traditional high schools with reported attendance figures, chronic absenteeism was higher than at Concord High, College Park High, Northgate High, and Las Lomas High, but lower than at Mt. Diablo High.
Scores improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: English rose 8 percentage points, math 5, and science 8; the gaps to state results narrowed by 8, 4, and 5 points. Across four years, math gained 11 points, while English gained 1 and science gained 5. SchoolDigger places Ygnacio Valley at the 32nd statewide percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026. Its student-teacher ratio was 18.9 in 2024–2025, and 82% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. SchoolDigger’s statewide effectiveness ranking for White students was at the 73rd percentile, 41 points above the school’s overall percentile; its ranking for Special Education Students rose from the 2nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 64th in 2025–2026.
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