Summary:
The middle-school list for Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary has one school, Oak Creek Intermediate, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 187 students. The most important finding is that its 2025–26 proficiency was below California’s in all three all-grade subjects, with the widest shortfall in math: 16% at Oak Creek versus 38% statewide, about 22 percentage points lower.
Oak Creek is the area’s only school, so there is no between-school leader or trailer to identify. In 2025–26, it scored 2 points above the district in ELA, 7 points below in math, and was essentially even in science. Compared with California, its all-grade results were 13 points lower in ELA, 22 lower in math, and 11 lower in science. Eighth-grade ELA was a bright spot: 49.1% proficient, just 0.4 points below the state’s 49.5%. Results were much lower in sixth-grade ELA, at 19% versus 48% statewide, and seventh-grade math, at 12% versus 38%.
Results declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26: Oak Creek fell 4 points in ELA, 5 in math, and 4 in science, while California’s results rose by less than 1 point, 1 point, and 3 points, respectively. As a result, the state gaps widened by 4 points in ELA, 6 in math, and 7 in science. SchoolDigger ranked Oak Creek at the 29th percentile with 1 star in 2025–26, down from the 41st percentile and 2 stars in 2024–25. Other context includes an 18.2:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–25 and chronic absenteeism of 25% in 2025–26, compared with 24% districtwide and 18% statewide. In 2024–25, 74% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible.
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