Summary:
Paradise, California, has eight schools: two elementary, two middle, two high and two alternative schools, with enrollments from 44 to 496 students. Five schools reported 2025–26 all-grades results, and the differences between them are wide: proficiency ranged from 48% to 17% in ELA and from 39% to 0% in math. For comparison, state results were 49% in ELA and 38% in math. The most important finding is that outcomes vary substantially from one school to another, rather than showing a uniformly strong or weak picture across Paradise.
Paradise Ridge Elementary led the five-school 2025–26 group in math and science, at 39% and 36%, close to state results of 38% and 36%; its ELA result was 48%. Paradise Senior High led in ELA at 48% and had a 92% graduation rate, compared with 88% statewide, but its math and science results were 16% and 23%. In 2024–25, Paradise Charter Middle exceeded state results in all three subjects, with 53% in ELA, 41% in math and 52% in science. Children’s Community Charter also exceeded the state in all three. At the lower end, Ridgeview High (Continuation) had 17% in ELA and 0% in math in 2025–26; HomeTech Charter had the weakest 2024–25 results among its seven-school comparison group, below the state in all three subjects.
Across the four schools with results in both years, average ELA proficiency rose from 34% in 2024–25 to 37% in 2025–26, while math fell from 24% to 19% and science from 36% to 27%. SchoolDigger’s statewide rankings also moved around: Senior High went from 36 to 63 to 46 over three years, while Ridgeview moved from 23 to 8 to 23. A low student-teacher ratio alone did not signal stronger results: Ridgeview’s ratio was 12, while Paradise Ridge’s was 23.5. All schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25, ranging from 50% at Senior High to 81% at HomeTech; these figures are context, not an explanation of results. Because schools serve different grade spans, all-grades results are not perfectly like-for-like comparisons.
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