High Schools in Commerce

Commerce has one high school, Commerce High School, serving grades 9–12, with 217 students. Its latest results show a sharp subject split: in 2025–26, all-grades English Language Arts I proficiency was 28%, above the state’s 26%, while math and science were each 21 percentage points below the state. The most important finding for families is that ELA was a relative strength, but math and science results were substantially lower.

Because it is the only school in the list, Commerce is both the highest- and lowest-scoring listed school in every subject; there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. Against state results, its strongest latest all-grades result was ELA, 2 points above the state, while math was 4% versus 25% and science was 9% versus 30%. U.S. History was the school’s highest score, at 37%, but remained 4 points below the state’s 41%. The separate 11th-grade comparison is less favorable in ELA: Commerce was at 28% versus 36% statewide, and it was also below the state in math (4% versus 17%), science (9% versus 21%), and U.S. History (37% versus 41%).

Results shifted unevenly over two years: U.S. History rose 10 points, from 27% to 37%, while science fell 8 points, from 17% to 9%; math declined 3 points and ELA 1 point. SchoolDigger’s ranking dropped from the 62nd percentile in 2023–24 to the 22nd in 2024–25, then edged up to the 24th percentile in 2025–26; SchoolDigger lists the latest result as one star. Other measures offer a more positive picture: the 2024–25 graduation rate was 84%, 6 points above the state and equal to the Commerce district, and 2025–26 chronic absenteeism was 13%, below both the state’s 16% and the district’s 14%. In 2024–25, the student-teacher ratio was 14:1 and 77% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures provide context, not an explanation for test results; with one school, the list cannot show differences between local schools.