Summary:
Angwin has one listed school, Howell Mountain Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 85 students. With no other listed local schools, parents can compare its results with California’s and with its own past results, but not with another Angwin school. The clearest finding is that its 2025–2026 results were below state results in both reported subjects: 24% in English language arts (ELA) versus 49% statewide, and 17% in mathematics versus 38%—gaps of 25 and 22 percentage points, respectively.
There is no local top or bottom school: Howell Mountain Elementary is the only school in the group. Its ELA gap with the state was wider than its mathematics gap by 4 points. Grade-level results show that the shortfall was especially large in grade 4 ELA: the school was 8% versus 46% statewide, a 37-point gap, compared with 27% versus 44% in grade 3, a 17-point gap. In mathematics, the school was 27% versus 47% in grade 3 and 17% versus 42% in grade 4, gaps of 20 and 26 points.
Results declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while state results edged up, widening both gaps: school ELA fell from 27% to 24% and its gap widened by 4 points; mathematics fell from 18% to 17% and its gap widened by 2 points. SchoolDigger lists the school at the 9th percentile with zero stars in 2025–2026, compared with the 48th percentile and two stars in 2022–2023 and the 25th percentile and one star in 2021–2022. Chronic absenteeism was 34% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide. In 2024–2025, 60% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible; separately, California provides free meals to all students. The student-teacher ratio was 14.1:1 and spending was $60,771 per student in 2024–2025, with no peer-school benchmarks supplied. Because enrollment is small, test-score percentages may reflect small numbers of tested students.
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