Stanislaus County Office of Education

Stanislaus County Office of Education has four schools—two alternatives and two high schools—serving students from K–12, grades 6–12 and grades 5–12, with enrollments from 56 to 462. The most important overall finding is that proficiency at the three schools with reported 2025–26 results is far below the state in every subject: their averages are 4% in ELA, 3% in math and 4% in science, versus 49%, 38% and 36% statewide.

Stanislaus County Special Education leads the reported all-grades results in all three subjects, at 9% in ELA, 6% in math and 6% in science; those scores are still 40, 33 and 30 percentage points below state results. Its lead over the other two schools’ average is 8 points in ELA and 3 points in both math and science. At the low end, Teel reports 0% in all-grades ELA, while Petersen Alternative Center for Education at John B Allard reports 0% in math. The high schools’ results vary by subject: Petersen leads Teel in grade 8 ELA (4% to 0%) and science (4% to 3%), while Teel leads in grade 8 math (5% to 0%) and grade 11 math (7% to 0%). West Campus’s 2025–26 all-grades test results are suppressed.

Among the same three schools with results in both years, average ELA proficiency fell by 3 percentage points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, math fell by 2 points and science rose by 2; state averages increased in all three subjects, including 3 points in science. SchoolDigger gives the district a rank of 911 out of 968, at the 6th percentile with zero stars; its school percentiles rose from 2 to 9 for Teel and fell from 4 to 1 for Petersen over the reported three-year period. As context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible rates range from 56% at Special Education to 95% at West Campus; Teel’s student-teacher ratio is 9.6, compared with 16.4 at Petersen. West Campus also pairs 0% chronic absenteeism with a 55% dropout rate and an 18% graduation rate, so its attendance figure alone does not describe its outcomes.