Summary:
Zip code 92082 has nine schools—four elementary, one middle, three high and one alternative—serving students from primary grades through high school. Six schools have 2025–2026 results, two charter schools have 2024–2025 results only, and Valley Center Primary has no test-score entries. Across the six schools with the latest results, equal-weight averages were 34% in ELA, 17% in math and 19% in science, compared with California averages of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important finding is that area averages trail the state in all three subjects, with the largest shortfall in math at 22 percentage points.
Valley Center High leads in ELA at 48%, just 1 point below the state and 17 points above the average of the other five schools. Valley Center Elementary leads in math at 29% and science at 26%, exceeding the other schools’ averages in those subjects by 15 and 8 points. At the bottom, Oak Glen High scores 24% in ELA and 5% in math; those results are 13 and 14 points below the averages of the other five schools. Valley Center Middle has the lowest science score, 9%. The two high schools also differ sharply on 11th-grade tests: Valley Center High leads Oak Glen by 25 points in ELA, 15 in math and 14 in science. Reported graduation rates are 99% and 79%, respectively.
Recent progress is mixed: the six-school average rose 5 points in ELA from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, was nearly flat in math and fell 4 points in science. SchoolDigger percentiles tell a different, longer-term story: Oak Glen rose from 4 to 18 over three years, while Valley Center High fell from 60 to 43. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure for 2024–2025 ranges from 56% at Lilac to 96% at All Tribes Elementary Charter; the two charter schools’ student-teacher ratios also vary, from 13.6 at All Tribes Charter to 41.5 at All Tribes Elementary Charter. These are useful context, not explanations for academic results; all-grades scores can also hide differences between specific grades.
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