Best Public Schools in Yolo, CA

Yolo’s school list has one high school, Cache Creek High (Continuation), serving grades 9–12 with 142 students. Its 2025–2026 results show serious challenges in attendance and completion: chronic absenteeism was 80%, graduation was 65%, and dropout was 15%. The most important concern is chronic absenteeism: the school’s rate was 62 percentage points higher than California’s 18%.

Cache Creek is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in the local list simply because it is the only one, so there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. Its reported proficiency rates were 3% in English language arts (ELA), 3% in math, and 2% in science, compared with 49%, 38%, and 36% statewide. That leaves gaps of 46 points in ELA, 35 in math, and 34 in science; ELA is the largest shortfall. SchoolDigger ranks the school 2,050th out of 2,137 schools, in the 4th percentile, with 0 stars for 2025–2026.

Results moved farther from the state’s in all three subjects between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. ELA proficiency fell 6 percentage points and math fell 2, while science rose 1; the state’s rates were essentially flat in ELA and rose in math and science. The average gap across the three subjects widened by about 4 points, from 34 to 38 percentage points. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also shifted from the 6th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 8th in 2024–2025, then down to the 4th in 2025–2026. As context, the school had a 14.5 student–teacher ratio and 84% free/reduced lunch eligible in school year 2024–2025; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results.