Summary:
The supplied data lists one high school in ZIP code 95012: North Monterey County High, serving grades 9–12 with 1,250 students in North Monterey County Unified. Its results show a mixed academic picture: in 2025–2026, all-grades English language arts proficiency was 58%, above California’s 49%, while math proficiency was 17%, 22 percentage points below the state’s 38%. Math is the school’s clearest academic concern.
North Monterey County High stands out for ELA, but math is its weakest subject relative to the state; because it is the only school in the supplied list, there is no meaningful top-to-bottom comparison among local schools. The school’s ELA proficiency was 8 percentage points above the state and 27 points above the district; its math rate was 4 points below the district. Science proficiency was 29%, 7 points below the state but 9 points above the district. Other reported outcomes are favorable for graduation and dropout: the 2025–2026 graduation rate was 93%, 5 points above the state, while the dropout rate was 4%, 4 points below it. Chronic absenteeism, at 23%, was 5 points higher than the state rate.
Test results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: proficiency rose 6 percentage points in ELA, 9 in math, and 11 in science, with the school’s state-relative gap narrowing in each subject. SchoolDigger’s ranking rose to the 49th percentile from the 37th percentile the prior year, after standing at the 46th percentile in 2023–2024; it was not a steady upward trend across all three years. SchoolDigger places the district at the 14th percentile and rates it one star. For context, the school reported 85% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 and a student–teacher ratio of 21.7 that year.
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