High Schools in Woodland Joint Unified

Woodland Joint Unified has three high schools serving grades 9–12: Pioneer High (1,582 students), Woodland Senior High (1,155), and Cache Creek High (Continuation) (142). The schools’ results vary sharply: Pioneer is above the state in ELA, while Cache Creek is far below it, and even the top school is below the state in math.

Pioneer leads in all three 2025–2026 subjects, with 61% proficiency in ELA, 22% in math, and 32% in science; it is 14 points above the next school in ELA, 7 in math, and 6 in science. Woodland Senior is second in each subject, at 47%, 15%, and 26%. Cache Creek is lowest, at 3%, 3%, and 2%, trailing the next-lowest school by 44 points in ELA, 12 in math, and 24 in science. Pioneer also reports a 96% graduation rate and 1% dropout rate, but 24% chronic absenteeism. Cache Creek reports 65% graduation, 15% dropout, and 80% chronic absenteeism.

Recent score changes differ by school: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Pioneer gained 8 points in ELA and 5 in science but fell 1 in math; Woodland gained 2 in ELA, 1 in math, and 7 in science. Cache Creek fell 6 points in ELA and 2 in math, while science rose 1. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 53 to 56 for Pioneer, fell from 48 to 39 for Woodland, and from 6 to 4 for Cache Creek; its current ratings are 3, 2, and 0 stars, respectively. In 2024–2025, student–teacher ratios were 20.2 at Pioneer, 19.8 at Woodland, and 14.5 at Cache Creek. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 71% at Pioneer, 77% at Woodland, and 84% at Cache Creek; these figures describe context, not the reason for different outcomes. Score trends cover only two years.