Summary:
Zip code 92372 in Pinon Hills, California, contains one elementary school, Pinon Hills Elementary, serving grades K-5 with 566 students in the Snowline Joint Unified School District.
This school serves a community with significant economic need, where over 84% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Academically, the school faces considerable challenges, with proficiency rates in English, math, and science consistently well below both district and state averages. A major contributing factor is a chronic absenteeism rate of 39.1%, which is double the state average and severely impacts student learning. The school has ranked in the bottom 15% of California elementary schools for the past three years, though it showed a slight improvement from the 4th to the 11th percentile in the most recent rankings.
Despite these struggles, the school's per-student spending is relatively high at over $16,000, indicating that funding alone is not resolving the core issues. Performance varies notably by grade, with fourth-grade scores being particularly low, while fifth grade shows relative strength. For families, the key takeaways are the school's high poverty concentration, severe attendance problems, and low academic performance compared to broader benchmarks, all within a district that is itself in the lower third of state rankings.
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