Summary
Village Oaks High is a public high school serving 156 students in grades 9–12 in Stockton, in Lincoln Unified. Its graduation rate is high: 97% in 2025–26, compared with 88% statewide and 97% in the district. But chronic absenteeism was 35%, above the state’s 18% and the district’s 24%. The most important concern is that proficiency is very low in all three tested subjects: 18% in ELA, 2% in math and 11% in science.
Compared with nearby schools, Village Oaks had the lowest math proficiency and the second-lowest ELA and science results among the nine with scores. Its results were also well below both the state and district: the state’s rates were 49% in ELA, 38% in math and 36% in science, while Lincoln Unified recorded 47%, 30% and 30%. Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to these comparison groups, though its 11% proficiency remains low. Its ELA result was 37 points below the nearby-school average, while math was 25 points below and science 24 points below. Nearby-school results vary widely, but only Plaza Robles High ranked lower than Village Oaks in SchoolDigger’s latest nearby-school rankings.
Test trends show limited overall progress: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA was nearly unchanged, math remained very low, and science rose from 4% to 11%. Chronic absenteeism improved from 65% to 35% over the same period, though it remains high. SchoolDigger ranked Village Oaks in the 15th percentile statewide, with 1 star, in 2025–26; its percentile has fluctuated, from 19 to 13 to 15 over three years. In 2024–25, 83% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and the student-teacher ratio was 9.9, the lowest among nearby schools with reported ratios. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school served African American students fell from the 34th percentile in 2018–19 to the 10th in 2023–24; for Disabled Students, it fell from the 57th percentile in 2018–19 to the 19th in 2020–21.
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