Summary:
The Santa Rosa High district area includes 11 schools: six high schools and five schools labeled middle. Four of the middle schools serve grades 7–8, while Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter serves grades 5–6. The central finding for parents is how widely high-school results differ: in grade 11, the gap between the highest- and lowest-scoring schools is 54 percentage points in ELA, 34 in math and 38 in science.
Maria Carrillo High leads conventional high schools in all three grade 11 subjects, with 64% proficiency in ELA, 39% in math and 43% in science—about 24, 21 and 20 points above the other high schools’ averages. At the other end, Ridgway High (Continuation) scores 10% in ELA, 5% in math and 5% in science, trailing state results by 48, 26 and 33 points. Among the four grade 7–8 schools, Rincon Valley Middle leads in grade 7 ELA and math and grade 8 ELA, math and science; its grade 8 ELA is still 2 points below the state. The charter is a separate grade-span comparison, but stands out against state results: its grade 5 scores are 32–43 points higher across the three subjects, and grade 6 ELA and math are 38 and 50 points higher.
Recent changes are mixed: Santa Rosa High improved its all-grades results by 8 points in ELA, 7 in math and 6 in science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Maria Carrillo’s math fell 7 points and Elsie Allen High’s ELA fell 10. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Maria Carrillo also declined from 89 in 2023–2024 to 74 in 2025–2026, illustrating that rankings and one-year score changes are different measures. All schools report free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL) for 2024–2025: Maria Carrillo’s share is 35%, compared with 58% at Santa Rosa High, while Rincon Valley’s is 34%, compared with 76% at Santa Rosa Junior High and 86% at Hilliard Comstock Middle; these are contextual observations, not explanations of results. Small schools and different grade spans call for care when comparing results.
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