Summary:
Zip code 92231 has 11 schools in Calexico Unified—7 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high schools—with 8,020 students enrolled. The 2025–26 school averages were 26% in English language arts (ELA), 16% in mathematics, and 12% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The most important finding is that every school was below the state result in all three subjects.
Calexico High led in ELA at 46%, 12 points ahead of the next-highest school, Enrique Camarena Junior High, at 34%; it was still 4 points below the state. Cesar Chavez Elementary led in mathematics at 26% and science at 23%, respectively 12 and 13 points below state results. At the other end, Aurora High (Continuation) had the lowest results overall: 13% in ELA and 0% in both mathematics and science. Among elementary schools, Rockwood Elementary had the lowest results in all three subjects. One grade-level bright spot was Blanche Charles Elementary: its grade 3 ELA result was 47%, 3 points above the state, and its mathematics result was 46%, just 1 point below.
Local averages edged down from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in ELA (27% to 26%) and mathematics (18% to 16%), while science rose from 11% to 12%; state results improved in all three subjects. Within the middle-school pair, Enrique Camarena outscored William Moreno Junior High by 8 points in ELA, 7 in mathematics, and 2 in science, and had lower chronic absenteeism (20% versus 32%). SchoolDigger ranks the district 901st of 968, in the 7th percentile. Aurora’s low student-teacher ratio of 9.9 contrasts with Calexico High’s 22.2, but Aurora’s test results are much lower; the schools differ in size and type. Among elementary schools, the 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible share ranged from 79% at Cesar Chavez to 94% at Rockwood, a 16-point difference—context about the schools, not an explanation for their results.
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