Summary:
The 3 schools in Potter Valley Community Unified serve kindergarten through grade 12: Potter Valley Elementary (K–6), Potter Valley Junior High (grades 7–8), and Potter Valley High (grades 9–12). Together they enroll 261 students. In 2025–26, the equal-school averages were 32% in ELA, 18% in math, and 25% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The most important area-wide finding is that results trail the state in every subject, with the largest shortfall in math: 20 percentage points.
Each school has a different strength, while Potter Valley Junior High has the lowest results in ELA and science. Potter Valley High led ELA at 47%, 22 points above the other schools’ average and just 2 points below the state; however, its math result was 11%, 28 points below the state and the lowest among the schools. Potter Valley Elementary led in math at 25% and science at 33%, respectively 11 and 12 points above the other schools’ averages. Junior High recorded 21% in ELA and 13% in science, 17 and 19 points below the other schools’ averages. High also had a 95% graduation rate, above the state’s 88%.
Score changes were mixed: High rose 37 points in ELA, 11 in math, and 30 in science from 2024–25, while Elementary declined in all three subjects and Junior High also fell in all three, including a 25-point drop in science. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 rankings put High at the 41st percentile, Elementary at the 28th, and Junior High at the 14th; High rebounded from the 3rd percentile the prior year. The 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 52% at High, 66% at Elementary, and 67% at Junior High; student-teacher ratios that year were 13.9, 16.8, and 15.1, respectively. Because the schools serve different grade spans and enrollments are small—especially at Junior High—school-to-school score comparisons are not fully like-for-like and percentages can reflect relatively few students.
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