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Hillside Junior/Senior High

Pine Valley, CA · Grades 7-12 · 31 students · Mountain Empire Unified

A closer look at learning, opportunity and fit.

85.0% graduate in four years. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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PrincipalGary Brannon
Grades7-12
Enrollment31 students

Math

Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

English

Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

31

Total enrollment

Graduation

85.0%

Four-year graduation rate

What are you trying to decide?

The overall score is a starting point.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grade 11 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2022: 0%2023: 8%2022: 36%2023: 8%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2022: 0%2023: 8%2022: 36%2023: 8%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
2019
20220%36%
20238%8%
2024
2025

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2022 to 2025

Has stayed near the 3rd percentile since 2022.

A missing score is not a judgment, and it is not a claim about what the state published. It means the composite a Scope Score, band and rank are all built from isn't on file for this school this year — the honest move is to say so, and to show whatever results are on file rather than guess at a number.

Percentile among 1,647 high schools statewide
Year detailsYear2022 · 5th percentile · Scope Score 32 of 1002023 · 3rd percentile · Scope Score 30 of 100
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20222023
Grade 1136%8%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20222023
Grade 110%8%

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Where graduates go

What happens after high school?

0%

Enrolled in college within a year

Class of 2023 · 0 of 16 completers · includes community colleges

16Completers
0%
Other colleges0 completers · Outside the California community college system
0%
California community colleges0 completers · Enrolled within a year
100%
Not recorded enrolled16 completers · No college enrollment in this reporting window

Destination data describes this earlier graduating class, separately from current-year test results and graduation. Percentages are rounded.

College destinations and the full graduate record
2024–25

Where graduates go

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Where the class of 2023 went
0%enrolled in college within a year
  • Not enrolled16 (100%)

CDE 12-mo College-Going Rate, class of 2023 · % = count ÷ completers, our arithmetic

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 16 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher16 · district 19
Teaching staff2 teachers
Avg. experience32.0 years
Fully credentialed23%
PrincipalGary Brannon

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $23,653 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$283 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $23,653, CA average $14,491$23,653 · spent at this school
Federal share$283 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$23,242 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 61%Instruction support 9%Student services 13%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 9%Other 2%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$15,429 per pupil
2019$14,712 per pupil
2018$14,510 per pupil
2017$7,565 per pupil
2016$8,011 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Four in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 31 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).

Hispanic or Latino64.5% · district 48.8% · CA 56.1%
White25.8% · district 35.9% · CA 19.9%
Other9.7% · district 11.6% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch80.7% · CA 64%
Median income$143K · CA $85K
Median home value$528K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+41% · CA 35%
ZIP population2,574
Median age51 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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Educator voices

What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · high schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Moving & enrollment

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Elementary · K–5

Middle · 6–8

No school established for this stage.

High school · 9–12

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Worth a school visit

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Behind the evidence

Inspect the full record

Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

A closer look at the evidence

Hillside Junior/Senior High: reading the evidence

Hillside Junior/Senior is a high school in Pine Valley. We publish no Scope Score, band or rank for it this year — the composite they are all built from isn't on file. Here's what we can show.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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SchoolScope scores and verdicts are our interpretation of public California Department of Education data — independent analysis, not an official rating. How we analyze · Request a correction

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