Summary
Goodwill High is a public high school serving grades 9–12 in Victorville, California, and is part of the Victor Valley Union High district. It enrolls 58 students, the smallest enrollment among the nearby schools compared. Its reported chronic absenteeism was 90% in 2025–26, compared with 23% in the district and 18% statewide; it was also higher than every nearby school with a reported rate. The most important concern is that absenteeism is exceptionally high and has remained so across the years reported.
Goodwill High’s strongest relative result was science, where it ranked second-lowest among eight nearby schools; it was last in English language arts (ELA) and math. In 2025–26, about 4% of students were proficient in ELA, 0% in math, and 4% in science. Those results were below the state by 45, 38, and 32 percentage points, respectively, and below the district by 42, 23, and 24 points. The latest graduation rate was 84%, below the state’s 88% but slightly above the district’s 83%; the 16% dropout rate was higher than both.
Proficiency has not meaningfully improved over the four test years reported: math remained at 0%, while ELA and science were about 4% in both 2022–23 and 2025–26, despite a temporary ELA rise to 13% in 2024–25. SchoolDigger ranked the school in the 2nd percentile with 0 stars in 2025–26 (2,084th of 2,137); its percentile fell from 9 in 2022–23 to 2. The 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 9.5, lower than every nearby school with a reported ratio, but that did not correspond with stronger proficiency results. In 2024–25, 86% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible. That rate is higher than at Cobalt Institute of Math and Science, where the reported rate was 80% and ELA proficiency was 73%; these figures provide context, not an explanation for outcomes. Because enrollment is small, results may be sensitive to changes in the number of students tested.
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