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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 92249

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At a glance

Schools

1,155

Students

Top rankedDogwood Elementary2144^th of 5,804 California elementary schools

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Biggest riser

Heber up 23 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

Zip code 92249 has two schools in the Heber Elementary district: Dogwood Elementary serves grades K–4 and enrolls 606 students, while Heber serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 549. Their 2025–2026 results show a subject-specific split rather than one school leading across the board. The most important takeaway is that Dogwood leads in all-grades math, while Heber leads in all-grades ELA.

Dogwood Elementary stands out in math: 50% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, compared with 35% at Heber, a 14-point gap; Dogwood was 11 points above the state, while Heber was 3 points below. In ELA, Heber led with 50% compared with Dogwood’s 47%, a 3-point difference. Heber’s math results also vary by grade: it was 12 points below the state in grade 6, but 3 points above in grade 7 and 9 points above in grade 8. In SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 statewide rankings, Dogwood was at the 63rd percentile and Heber at the 64th.

Recent changes were mixed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Heber gained 2 points in ELA and 1 in math, while Dogwood’s ELA fell 3 points and its math was nearly unchanged. Heber also gained 6 points in science, the only school with reported science results. Context measures differ too: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 71% at Dogwood and 69% at Heber; student–teacher ratios were 19.5 and 20.7, respectively. For 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 28% at Dogwood and 13% at Heber. The schools’ all-grades results cover different grade spans, so they are not direct comparisons of the same grades.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				CAST Science (2026)			Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2026)							Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2026)							% Completely Immunized (2022)	% Polio (2022)	% Varicella (2022)	% DTP (2022)	% MMR (2022)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 5th Grade	CAST Science 8th Grade	CAST Science All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	% Completely Immunized KG	% Polio KG	% Varicella KG	% DTP KG	% MMR KG	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Heber	Public	5-8	1052 Heber Ave.	Heber	92249	Imperial County	Heber Elementary	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(760) 337-6530	549	26	20.7	68.9%	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.2%)	544 (99.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (0.5%)	57.3	976^th of 2703 public middle schools	63.9%		56.1	999^th of 2761 public middle schools	63.8%	23	28.5	38.7	34.2			46.6	47.1	53.5	50.7	49.7			26.7	25.6	40.3	45.0	35.3						$38,124	$35,016	$3,108
Dogwood Elementary	Public	K-4	44 East Correll Rd.	Heber	92249	Imperial County	Heber Elementary	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(760) 337-6530	606	31	19.5	71.3%	12 (2.0%)	0 (0.0%)	591 (97.5%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.3%)	58.2	2144^th of 5804 public elementary schools	63.1%		60.6	2033^rd of 5857 public elementary schools	65.3%	111				47.3	45.7					46.6	52.3	46.6					49.6	92.6	92.6	92.6	92.6	92.6	$38,124	$35,016	$3,108

Cities Near Zip Code 92249

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Heber	1.96 mi	2	272^nd
Calexico	2.35 mi	12	809^th
El Centro	4.4 mi	26	560^th
Imperial	8.08 mi	6	341^st
Holtville	8.96 mi	6	316^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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