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Corcoran High
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Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 33 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 26% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Corcoran High
Set in Corcoran, California, Corcoran High is a medium-sized senior high, part of Corcoran Joint Unified. It teaches 931 students across grades 9 through 12.
Corcoran Joint Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,175 students. Corcoran High is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Corcoran High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Beyond that, the school records 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 58% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Corcoran High shows 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at Corcoran High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kings County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
With demographic context factored in, Corcoran High is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 26.3%; this one delivers 48.3%, a residual of +22.0 points.
In the broader community, census data for Kings County shows median household income runs about $70,995, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Corcoran High is one of 67 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students).
Nearest neighbor: Bret Harte Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Corcoran High comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.3%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Over the past 7-year window. Corcoran High's enrollment has expanded 10% since 2018, when it stood at 848 (now 931). White enrollment moved from 8% to 3% across the same window.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Corcoran High typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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