Summary:
Groveland has two schools serving 237 students: Tenaya Elementary serves kindergarten through grade 8, and Tioga High serves grades 9–12. In 2025–2026, both schools were below California’s all-grade proficiency rates in ELA, math, and science. The clearest shared concern is math: the schools’ simple average was 11% proficient, compared with 38% statewide, a 27-point gap.
Tenaya led in all three subjects, while Tioga had lower results in each. Tenaya’s rates were 40% in ELA, 17% in math, and 24% in science; Tioga’s were 24%, 6%, and 12%, respectively—a Tenaya advantage of 16, 11, and 12 points. Both schools were below the state, but Tenaya was closer: its gaps were 10 points in ELA, 22 in math, and 12 in science, compared with Tioga’s 26, 32, and 24 points. Attendance is another notable difference: chronic absenteeism was 26% at Tenaya and 52% at Tioga, versus 18% statewide.
Tenaya improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 15 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 15 in science; comparable prior-year test results were not supplied for Tioga. Tenaya’s grade-level results also vary: grade 4 math was 0%, while grade 5 science was 40%, above the state’s 35%; these are useful details alongside the all-grade picture. SchoolDigger ranks Tenaya at the 32nd percentile (2 stars) and Tioga at the 19th percentile (1 star). In 2024–2025, Tioga’s student-teacher ratio was 8.2, compared with 13.2 at Tenaya. Both reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025: 49% at Tioga and 54% at Tenaya. These are contextual observations, not explanations of school results.
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