Summary:
Konocti Unified has nine schools: five elementary, one middle, two high, and one alternative school, serving students from elementary through high school in the Konocti area. In 2025–26, every school’s reported all-grades ELA and math results were below California’s, as were all reported science results. The simple average across schools was 19% in ELA, 8% in math, and 13% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The most important finding is that even the district’s strongest school results remain well below state levels.
East Lake leads in all three all-grades subjects, with 32% in ELA, 20% in math, and 23% in science. It is ahead of the next school by about 2 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 6 in science. Lower Lake High is next in ELA at 30%, while Burns Valley is second in math and science at 13% and 18%. At the lower end, Highlands Academy has the lowest reported ELA result, 5%; Carle High is next-lowest at 10%, and both schools report 0% in math. Carle’s science result is 4%; Highlands’ science result is suppressed. Grade-level results can differ: in third-grade math, Lower Lake Elementary scores 29%, compared with about 15% at East Lake, Burns Valley, and Pomo.
Science shows the clearest improvement over two years: the average rose from 7% in 2024–25 to 13% in 2025–26, led by gains of 18 points at East Lake and 12 at Burns Valley; ELA and math averages each increased by about 1 point. Results were not uniformly better: Obsidian Middle’s ELA fell 3 points, while Lower Lake Elementary’s science fell 3. SchoolDigger ranks Lower Lake High at the 24th percentile and East Lake at the 23rd, among a district range from the 2nd to 24th percentiles. Attendance is another important difference: chronic absenteeism ranges from 40% at East Lake to 95% at Carle, both above the state’s 18%. East Lake’s student–teacher ratio is 22.2, compared with 7.5 at Highlands Academy; its free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 80% in 2024–25. These measures describe different school contexts and do not explain test results.
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