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Best High Schools in Zip Code 92363

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Schools

296

Students

Top rankedNeedles High1275^th of 2,135 California high schools

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Needles High up 111 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

ZIP code 92363 has three high schools in Needles Unified: Needles High and Educational Training Center serve grades 9–12, while Needles Community Day serves grades 6–12. Enrollment ranges from 9 to 269 students. Needles High is above the district in all three reported subjects, but all three schools have higher chronic absenteeism than the state rate; attendance is the clearest concern across this group.

Needles High has the strongest available test-score profile, scoring 35% in ELA, 23% in math, and 27% in science in 2025–26—4 to 5 points above the district in each subject, but 9 to 16 points below the state. It cannot be declared the highest-performing of all three because only Needles High has reportable 2025–26 school test scores; the other schools’ results are suppressed. Attendance is worst at Educational Training Center: chronic absenteeism is 90%, compared with 69% at Needles Community Day and 28% at Needles High. The range is 63 percentage points. Needles High and Educational Training Center each report 100% graduation and 0% dropout in 2025–26.

Needles High’s scores improved unevenly: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA fell 7 points, while math rose 6 and science rose 12; its average gap to the state across the three subjects narrowed by 2 points. SchoolDigger gives it two stars and a 40th-percentile ranking in 2025–26; its percentile ranking fell from 44th in 2023–24 to 36th in 2024–25 before recovering to 40th. Student–teacher ratios are 18.7 at Needles High, 8.9 at Needles Community Day, and 17.3 at Educational Training Center; the lower ratio at Community Day does not coincide with lower absenteeism. For 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 77% at Needles High and 94% at Community Day; Educational Training Center reported 67% directly certified for free meals, a different measure.

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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)				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 8th Grade	CAST Science 11th Grade	CAST Science 12th Grade	CAST Science All Grades	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 11th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 11th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Needles High	Public	9-12	1600 Washington St.	Needles	92363	San Bernardino County	Needles Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(760) 326-2191	269	14	18.7	77.3%	104 (38.7%)	8 (3.0%)	92 (34.2%)	4 (1.5%)	44 (16.4%)	1 (0.4%)	16 (5.9%)	40	1275^th of 2135 public high schools	40.3%		34.7	1386^th of 2162 public high schools	35.9%	111		30.0		27.3			35.0	35.0			22.5	22.5	$15,383	$464	$14,919
Educational Training Center	Public	9-12	1600 Washington St.	Needles	92363	San Bernardino County	Needles Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(760) 326-2092	9	1	17.3	—	5 (55.6%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (22.2%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (11.1%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (11.1%)								(n/a)													$28,590	$246	$28,344
Needles Community Day	Public	6-12	600 Cibola St.	Needles	92363	San Bernardino County	Needles Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(760) 326-3891	18	2	8.9	94.4%	8 (44.4%)	2 (11.1%)	3 (16.7%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (16.7%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (11.1%)								(n/a)													$29,737	$246	$29,491

Cities Near Zip Code 92363

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Needles	0.13 mi	5	782^nd
Havasu Lake	25.03 mi	1
Big River	49.2 mi	2

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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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