Summary:
ZIP code 93545 has two small schools: Lo-Inyo Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 8 with 197 students, and Lone Pine High, serving grades 9–12 with 86 students; the list has no separate middle school. In 2025–2026, Lone Pine High led in all three reported subjects, but the area’s clearest strength is math: the schools’ average was 10 points above the state, while their averages were 5 points below in ELA and 10 points below in science.
Lone Pine High stands out, especially in math: its all-grades results were 45% in ELA, 59% in math and 29% in science, compared with 43%, 38% and 24% at Lo-Inyo. The high school’s lead was 3 points in ELA, 22 in math and 5 in science; its math result was 21 points above the state, while Lo-Inyo was 1 point below. Lo-Inyo’s ELA and science results were also below state figures, by 6 and 12 points. At the high school, 11th-grade math was 27 points above the state, while 11th-grade ELA and science were 12 and 10 points below. Its 100% graduation rate was 12 points above the state, but chronic absenteeism was 39%, 21 points above the state. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades scores are not a like-grade comparison.
Lo-Inyo improved in ELA and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, gaining 7 and 5 points, but science fell 8 points. SchoolDigger rankings also rose for Lo-Inyo, from the 34th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 50th in 2025–2026; Lone Pine High was at the 63rd percentile in 2025–2026, after ranking at the 62nd and 60th percentiles in earlier years. Lo-Inyo has a 16.4 student-teacher ratio and 59% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; Lone Pine High’s ratio is 11.5 and 52% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These differences describe the schools, but do not show what explains their results.
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