Happy Valley Elementary

The Happy Valley area has one listed elementary school, Happy Valley Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 6 and enrolling 106 students. With no other local schools in the list, the clearest comparison is with California statewide results. The school’s most important strength is that its 2025–2026 proficiency was above the state’s in all three reported subjects: by 35 percentage points in English language arts (ELA), 46 in math, and 24 in science.

Happy Valley Elementary is both the area’s highest- and lowest-ranked school simply because it is the only one, so those labels do not indicate a meaningful local comparison. Within the school, math was strongest relative to the state: 84% of students were proficient, compared with 38% statewide. ELA was also 84%, versus 49% statewide, while science was 60%, compared with 36%. Results varied by grade: ELA proficiency ranged from 75% in grade 4 to 100% in grade 6, and math ranged from 80% to 94% across grades 3–6. Each reported grade-level result was above its corresponding state result.

Recent results improved in ELA and math but slipped in science: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s ELA rate rose 4 percentage points and math rose 1, while science fell 4; its lead over the state widened by 4 points in ELA and narrowed by 8 in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 97th percentile with a five-star rating in 2025–2026, up from the 94th percentile the prior year. Other context includes a 16.5 student–teacher ratio and $37,670 per student in spending in 2024–2025, plus 8% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 17% in 2025–2026, 2 points below the state. Because the list contains only one school, it cannot show how these figures compare with other local schools.