Summary:
Zip code 92275 has two schools in Salton City: Sea View Elementary, serving grades K–6 with 682 students, and West Shores High, serving grades 7–12 with 503 students; both are in Coachella Valley Unified. In 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was high at both schools: 45% at Sea View and 48% at West Shores, compared with 18% statewide. The biggest shared concern is academic proficiency: the two-school averages were 26% in ELA, 11% in mathematics, and 11% in science, respectively 23, 28, and 25 percentage points below state rates.
Neither school leads in every subject. West Shores had the higher all-grades ELA result, 32% versus Sea View’s 21%, and science result, 15% versus 7%; Sea View led in mathematics, 13% to 8%. Even the local subject leaders remained below state results: 49% in ELA, 38% in mathematics, and 36% in science. West Shores also had a 99% graduation rate and a 1% dropout rate, compared with state rates of 88% and 8%. Its strong graduation figure contrasts with its 48% chronic absenteeism rate; Sea View’s rate was 45%.
Recent results point in different directions by subject: between 2024–25 and 2025–26, the two-school ELA average rose by 6 percentage points, mathematics fell by 3, and science rose by 2. Sea View’s scores declined in all three subjects, while West Shores’ ELA rose by 15 points and science by 6, but its mathematics score fell by 3. SchoolDigger placed Sea View in the 4th statewide percentile and West Shores in the 32nd for 2025–26. As context, both reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–25: 95% at Sea View and 94% at West Shores; their student-teacher ratios were 23.4 and 15.5. These all-grades comparisons involve different grade spans, so the overall results may not reflect a particular grade or subject.
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