Best High Schools in Zip Code 93615

ZIP code 93615 has two high schools in the Cutler-Orosi area: Lovell High serves grades 9–12 and has 54 students, while Cutler-Orosi Community Day serves grades 7–12 and has 7; both are in Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified. The clearest concern in the available results is Lovell’s combination of weak completion measures and very high chronic absenteeism: in 2025–26, 71% of students were chronically absent, compared with 18% statewide, graduation was 67% versus 88% statewide, and dropout was 17% versus 8% statewide. This is the most important finding for families weighing the area’s high schools.

Lovell is the only school with reportable 2025–26 proficiency scores, and its results were below state levels in all three subjects: ELA was 6% versus 49%, mathematics 0% versus 38%, and science 3% versus 36%. ELA had the widest state gap, at 43 percentage points; even science, the closest subject, was 33 points behind. SchoolDigger ranked Lovell 2,082nd of 2,137 statewide, at the 3rd percentile with 0 stars. The supplied data do not establish which school performs better academically because Community Day’s test results are suppressed.

Lovell’s ELA proficiency fell by 5 points over the two years provided, while the state edged up, widening the gap by 6 points; mathematics stayed at 0% as the state improved, widening the gap by 1 point. Science rose by 3 points at both Lovell and statewide, leaving the gap essentially unchanged. The schools’ other measures offer context, not a same-year comparison: 2024–25 student-teacher ratios were 9.8 at Lovell and 6.4 at Community Day; free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 91% at Lovell in 2024–25 and 67% at Community Day in 2023–24. Community Day’s latest supplied SchoolDigger rank is from 2012–13, so it cannot be fairly compared with Lovell’s current ranking.