Summary
Summit is an alternative K–12 school in Ojai, California, serving 183 students. Its latest reported results, for 2025–2026, show proficiency below both Ojai Unified and the state in English language arts (ELA), math, and science. The most important finding is that science is the clearest academic concern: just 10% of Summit students were proficient, compared with 33% in the district and 36% statewide.
ELA is Summit’s relative bright spot among nearby schools, but its results remain below the district and state. Summit’s ELA proficiency was 29%, compared with 42% in the district and 49% statewide; among four nearby schools with results, it ranked second and was 2 points above their 27% average. Math proficiency was 12%, below the nearby-school average of 13%, the district’s 26%, and the state’s 38%. Science was also below the nearby-school average of 23%, as well as the district and state. Summit’s 2024–2025 science result had been 38%, above the nearby-school average that year, making the latest drop a striking change.
Across the four years of results, ELA was nearly flat, moving from 30% in 2022–2023 to 29% in 2025–2026; math fell from 17% to 12%, and science from 33% to 10%. Over that period, Summit’s gap to the state widened by 4 points in ELA and 9 points in math; science went from 3 points above the state to 26 points below. In 2025–2026, Summit’s graduation rate was 77%, versus 88% in the district and state, while its dropout rate was 18%, compared with 8% for each. Its 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 30.4, among the highest in the nearby comparison, and 37% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger’s rank of 570 out of 968, 41st percentile, and two-star rating apply to the district, not Summit. Grade-level results are available for only some grades, so they do not describe Summit’s full K–12 span.
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