Summary
Hayfork Elementary serves 245 students in grades K–8 in the rural mountain community of Hayfork, California. Its latest results are mixed: science is above state and district averages, while ELA is below both and math is close to the state average. The most striking result is 4th-grade math: just 10% of students met the standard, compared with 42% statewide, while 7th- and 8th-grade math results were stronger.
Science is Hayfork’s clearest all-grades strength: 46% of students met the standard, versus 36% statewide and 42% in Mountain Valley Unified. However, Hayfork’s science result was about 8 points below the 53% average at the two nearby schools with reported results. ELA proficiency was 46%, below the state’s 49% and the district’s 47%, and was the lowest among the five nearby schools. Math was 39%—just above the state’s 38% and just below the district’s 39%—and about 13 points below the nearby-school average of 52%; Hayfork ranked third of five nearby schools in math. Science results were suppressed for two nearby schools, so the available comparison covers only two. At grade level, Hayfork was above the state in 7th-grade math (52% vs. 38%) and 8th-grade math (57% vs. 36%), underscoring how much the 4th-grade result stands out.
Results have declined since 2022–2023: ELA fell from 57% to 46%, math from 55% to 39%, and science from 51% to 46%, while state results rose; the state-relative gaps have narrowed, and math is now essentially level with the state. SchoolDigger rates Hayfork at the 50th percentile with 3 stars for 2025–2026, compared with the district’s 72nd percentile and 4 stars. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Low Socio Economic Status Students was 44 in 2025–2026, down from 85 in 2023–2024; for Female Students, it was 49, down from 84 in 2024–2025. These rankings reflect how well the school serves each group compared with the same group statewide. As context, Hayfork’s 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible rate was 74%, the highest among the five schools, and its student-teacher ratio was 24.5, also the highest; nearby ratios ranged from 10.6 to 17.1.
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