Best Public Schools in O Neals, CA

O Neals has five schools in Chawanakee Unified: one K–8 elementary school, three high schools serving grades 9–12, and one K–12 charter school, plus a continuation high school. Four schools have 2025–26 proficiency results; the schools’ overall picture is much stronger in English language arts (ELA) than in mathematics. Across those four schools, average ELA proficiency was 59%, compared with 49% statewide, while average math proficiency was 23%, compared with 38% statewide. The most important finding is that the area’s average math result was 16 points below California’s.

Results vary substantially by school and subject. Minarets Charter High had the highest all-grades ELA result at 80%, 15 points above the next-highest result at Minarets High (65%); it also led the group in 11th-grade ELA, with 80% proficient versus 57% statewide. Spring Valley Elementary led all-grades math at 35%, though that was still 4 points below the state result. At the other end, Minarets High had the lowest all-grades math result at 10%, 28 points below California. It also had the group’s highest science result, 42%, showing how sharply a school’s results can differ by subject. Chawanakee Academy Charter had the lowest ELA and science results, at 44% and 33%.

Average results improved in ELA and science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, rising 6 and 16 points, while math fell 3 points; school trends differed, with Minarets High’s math result down 16 points and Academy’s up 10. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Spring Valley rose from 41 to 54 over the reported ranking history, while Minarets High moved from 67 to 59 and Minarets Charter High from 80 to 68. Among schools with scores, student–teacher ratios ranged from 16.3 at Minarets High to 23.7 at Minarets Charter High; 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 48% at Spring Valley to 57% at Academy. These figures are context, not a consistent guide to academic results. Cedar Continuation High has no test-score results in the supplied data.