Summary:
The seven schools in Exeter Unified serve students from elementary through high school, with two elementary schools, one middle school, two high schools and two alternative schools. In 2025–26, results for Exeter Community Day were suppressed, and all-grades comparisons are not like-for-like because schools serve different grades. Across the other six schools, unweighted averages were 51% proficient in ELA, 35% in mathematics and 29% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The clearest area-wide strength is ELA; average mathematics and science results remained below state levels.
Exeter Union High had the highest reported all-grades ELA result, 70%—21 percentage points above the state—and the highest science result, 41%, 5 points above the state. Lincoln Elementary led mathematics at 46%, 8 points above the state. At the other end, Exeter Independent Study had the lowest reported result in all three subjects: 33% in ELA, 25% in mathematics and 8% in science. Rocky Hill Elementary was above state results in all three subjects, with 57% in ELA, 43% in mathematics and 38% in science.
Across the six schools with results in both years, average proficiency rose 8 percentage points in ELA, 3 in mathematics and 4 in science; the gains were larger than the state’s changes in each subject. School trends differed: Wilson Middle improved in all three subjects, Kaweah High had the largest ELA increase, 29 points, and Exeter Union High’s ELA result fell 5 points. SchoolDigger’s rankings also rose from 2023–24 to 2025–26 for Rocky Hill, Wilson and Lincoln. As context, all seven schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for school year 2024–2025, ranging from 66% at Exeter Union High to 90% at Kaweah; Rocky Hill’s figure was 78%, compared with Lincoln’s 82%. Their student-teacher ratios were 21.3 and 19.6, respectively. These measures offer context, not an explanation for differences in results.
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