Summary:
The area has one school, Johnstonville Elementary, serving kindergarten through eighth grade and enrolling 211 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades science proficiency was 39%, 3 points above California’s 36%, while its ELA and math results were below the state. The most important finding for parents is that the clearest academic concerns are ELA and math, particularly the sixth-grade results.
Johnstonville Elementary’s strongest all-grades result was science: 39% proficient, compared with 36% statewide. Its ELA result was 36% versus 49% statewide, or 14 points lower; math was 26% versus 38%, or 12 points lower. Results varied considerably by grade: fifth-grade ELA was 52%, 3 points above the state’s 49%, and fourth-grade math was 43%, 1 point above the state’s 42%. By contrast, sixth-grade ELA was 24% versus 48% statewide, a 25-point shortfall, and sixth-grade math was 6% versus 37%, 31 points lower. These sixth-grade results are the largest gaps in the grade comparisons.
Science improved sharply from 24% in 2024–2025 to 39% in 2025–2026, a 15-point gain, while ELA fell 6 points and math fell 4 points; the state’s results rose in all three subjects, so the ELA and math gaps widened as the science gap turned into an advantage. SchoolDigger ranked Johnstonville Elementary 3,259th of 5,804 schools, in the 44th percentile with 2 stars, in 2025–2026; it was 3,400th of 5,857, in the 42nd percentile with 2 stars, in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 15%, below the state’s 18%, in 2025–2026. Other context includes a 21.1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 54% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. With only one school in the area, there are no local school-to-school comparisons.
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