Summary:
The six schools in Willits Unified serve students from kindergarten through grade 12; test-score profiles are available for five, while Brookside Elementary has no score rows. SchoolDigger rates the district one star and ranks it 853rd of 968 districts, in the 12th percentile. Across the five schools with scores, average proficiency is 23% in ELA, 20% in math, and 13% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. Even each subject’s strongest school is below the state, so the main concern is that proficiency across the area trails state results in every tested subject.
Sherwood leads all-grades ELA and math, at 28% and 36%; its math result is just 2 percentage points below the state. Blosser Lane Elementary leads science at 27%, 9 points below the state and 17 points above the next-highest school. At the other end, Sanhedrin Alternative has the lowest ELA result at 14%, Baechtel Grove Middle the lowest math at 6%, and Willits High the lowest science at 9%. The high schools also have different subject strengths: in 11th grade, Willits High leads Sanhedrin by 10 points in ELA, while Sanhedrin leads Willits by 17 points in math. Willits High’s graduation rate is 98%, compared with 59% at Sanhedrin; however, chronic absenteeism is high at both—38% and 67%, respectively.
Average results improved from the prior year by 3 points in ELA, 6 in math, and 8 in science, though the science comparison covers four schools and individual results were mixed: Sherwood’s ELA score fell by 5 points, and Baechtel Grove’s math and science each declined. SchoolDigger rankings rose for Blosser Lane, from the 4th to the 18th percentile, and Sanhedrin, from the 16th to the 32nd; Baechtel Grove stayed at the 6th percentile. As context, in 2024–2025, 60% of students at Blosser Lane and Baechtel Grove were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with 70% at Sherwood and 77% at Sanhedrin; these figures do not explain score differences. Student-teacher ratios also vary, from 13.3 at Willits High to 23.9 at Blosser Lane.
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