Summary:
Schools in zip code 92250 include six schools in Holtville Unified: two elementary schools, a middle school, two high schools, and an alternative school. The reported schools span elementary through high-school grades, with results varying considerably by subject and school. Chronic absenteeism ranges from 4% at Pine Elementary to 48% at Sam Webb Continuation, compared with 18% statewide at Sam Webb’s end of the range. The clearest overall pattern is that ELA is a relative strength, while mathematics is weaker: four of five schools with reported scores exceed the state in ELA, but only two exceed it in math.
Freedom Academy of Imperial Valley has the highest reported ELA score, 77%, but also the lowest math score, 15%; its enrollment is 22. Among conventional schools, Holtville Middle leads ELA at 62%, while Pine Elementary leads math at 49% and science at 51%. Pine’s science result is 15 points above the state; Holtville Middle’s ELA is 12 points above it. At the lower end, Emmett S. Finley Elementary has the lowest reported ELA result at 43%, 7 points below the state, while Holtville High scores 23% in math and 26% in science, respectively 15 and 10 points below state results. Sam Webb’s current test scores are suppressed, and Freedom Academy’s small enrollment makes its results less comparable in stability.
Recent results show improvement in math and science at several schools, but not a uniform rise: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Pine’s math rose 5 points and science 15, while Holtville High’s science rose 11; Freedom Academy’s ELA fell 11 points and math 14. SchoolDigger rankings also moved in different directions: Holtville High rose 11 percentile points, Holtville Middle 6, Pine 5, and Finley fell 2 between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026. Staffing and income figures offer context, not an explanation for results: the student-teacher ratio ranges from 14.1 at Holtville Middle to 21.5 at Finley, and 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures range from 66% at Pine to 81% at Holtville Middle.
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