Summary:
Zip code 94525 has two public high schools in John Swett Unified, both serving grades 9–12: John Swett High enrolls 351 students and Willow High enrolls 26. The clearest difference for families is in attendance and completion: John Swett reports a 100% graduation rate and 27% chronic absenteeism, compared with 73% graduation and 68% chronic absenteeism at Willow.
John Swett High stands out for its reported graduation and dropout figures—100% graduated and 0% dropped out—while Willow’s 73% graduation and 27% dropout rates are the weaker completion results. Willow also has the higher chronic absenteeism rate by 42 percentage points. For achievement, John Swett’s all-grades English language arts result was 50%, about 1 point above the state’s 49%; its math result was 22 points below the state, and science was 8 points below. Willow’s test results are suppressed by the state, so the available data cannot compare the schools’ test performance.
John Swett’s test results moved in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 3 percentage points, math fell 7, and science rose 2, while the state’s science result rose 3 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also declined, from the 60th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 54th in 2024–2025 and 43rd in 2025–2026, a 17-point drop; rankings are separate from test scores. As context, in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 74% at John Swett and 69% at Willow, and student-teacher ratios were 18.5 and 22.8, respectively. These are differences between the schools, not explanations for their outcomes.
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