Best Public Schools in Zip Code 93622

This analysis examines six schools within the Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified district in Firebaugh, CA (zip code 93622), serving grades K-12 in a community with high economic need, where 84-89% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Among these schools, Firebaugh High stands out for its strong performance, achieving a graduation rate of 96.2% with zero dropouts and English Language Arts proficiency significantly above district and state averages, despite the challenging socioeconomic context. In contrast, Arthur E. Mills Intermediate excels in maintaining student attendance, with a chronic absenteeism rate of only 5.5%, and shows the district's strongest math scores. The alternative high school, El Puente High, faces significant challenges with very high absenteeism and lower historical graduation rates, despite having the highest per-student spending.

A key pattern across the district is a notable dip in academic performance in middle school, particularly in math, with scores improving in English at the high school level but remaining persistently low in math. There is a clear correlation between attendance and outcomes; schools with lower chronic absenteeism, like Mills Intermediate and Firebaugh High, perform better academically. The district-wide strength is a high graduation rate, but a consistent challenge is math proficiency, which lags behind state averages at every grade level.