Summary:
There are three schools in the Tehama County Department of Education, serving 156 students across grades K–12: Lincoln Street serves K–8, while Tehama County Special Education and Tehama Oaks High serve K–12; two schools are classified as alternative schools. The main achievement finding is that Lincoln’s 2025–2026 proficiency was above district results in all three subjects, but remained well below state results: 22% in ELA, 10% in math, and 18% in science, respectively 2, 1, and 3 points above the district and 27, 28, and 18 points below the state. The other schools’ all-grades proficiency figures were suppressed, so achievement comparisons are available only for Lincoln.
Attendance most clearly distinguishes the schools. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 0% at Tehama Oaks High and 1% at Lincoln Street, compared with 40% at Tehama County Special Education; the district rate was 15% and the state rate 18%. Special Education’s rate was 22 points above the state, while Lincoln’s was 17 points below. Lincoln’s recent achievement results are mixed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose from 19% to 22%, math remained about 10%, and science fell from 25% to 18%. The state’s results rose in all three subjects over that period, so Lincoln’s state gap narrowed in ELA but widened in math and science.
SchoolDigger ranked Lincoln Street 5,072 of 5,804 schools in 2025–2026, at the 13th percentile with one star; its 2018–2019 ranking was 3,878 of 5,789, at the 33rd percentile with two stars. Student-teacher ratios for 2024–2025 were 23.9 at Lincoln, 8.3 at Special Education, and 11.1 at Oaks. The schools reported 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures of 87%, 59%, and 87%, respectively. These are school-level measures, not a measure of who can receive meals; the figures provide context but do not establish a cause for attendance or achievement differences.
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