Saint Helena Unified

Saint Helena Unified has five schools, from primary and elementary grades through high school, including an intermediate school and an opportunities program. Test results are available for three schools; no scores are supplied for Saint Helena Primary or the Saint Helena Opportunities Program. The clearest academic standout is Saint Helena Elementary, which leads the tested schools in both Mathematics and Science and scores above the state in every reported grade-specific result.

Strengths vary by school and subject. Saint Helena High leads in ELA at 80% proficient, 31 percentage points above the state, but has the lowest Mathematics score at 26%, 12 points below the state, and the lowest Science score at 32%. Saint Helena Elementary scores 62% in Mathematics and 50% in Science—23 and 14 points above the state—and 66% in ELA. Robert Louis Stevenson Intermediate is lowest in ELA at 52%, but is 3 points above the state in Science. The high school’s completion outcomes are strong: its graduation rate is 99%, compared with 88% statewide, and its dropout rate is 0%, compared with 8% statewide.

Recent changes favor ELA overall, while Mathematics and Science results were mixed. Across the three tested schools, average ELA rose 5 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; the high school’s 13-point gain was especially large. The high school’s Mathematics and Science scores fell 2 and 7 points, respectively, while elementary Science rose 5 points. SchoolDigger rates the district 4 stars and places it at the 79th statewide percentile; its school rankings have diverged, with the elementary school rising 7 percentile points since 2023–2024, while the high school fell 14 and the intermediate school fell 8. For context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 37% at the high school, 42% at the intermediate school and 37% at the elementary school; student-teacher ratios were 13.1, 12.5 and 14.3, respectively. These measures describe school context, not the cause of achievement differences.