Summary:
ZIP code 93278 has two schools operated by the Tulare County Office of Education: Special Education, an alternative school serving kindergarten through grade 12 with 1,141 students, and Tulare County Court, serving grades 7–12 with 66 students. Their different programs and grade spans make broad comparisons imperfect, but both reported 0% proficiency in all-grades English language arts and math in 2025–2026. The clearest shared concern is that these results were far below California’s benchmarks.
Neither school leads the other in all-grades ELA or math: both reported 0%, about 49 percentage points below the state in ELA and 38 points below in math. In science, Court reported 0%, about 36 points below the state, while Special Education’s result was suppressed, so the schools cannot be ranked against each other. Court’s reported 11th-grade results were also 0% in ELA and math, about 57 and 32 points below state results. The schools’ attendance and completion figures differ sharply: Court had lower chronic absenteeism, 2% versus 47% at Special Education, but higher dropout, 55% versus 7%; its graduation rate was 45%, compared with 0% at Special Education.
Court’s all-grades proficiency remained at 0% in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while state proficiency rose in each; the state gaps widened by about 0.5 points in ELA, 1 point in math, and 3 points in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for Court moved from the 5th percentile to the 2nd percentile. The schools have similar student–teacher ratios—10.6 at Special Education and 10.8 at Court—but very different enrollments. Both report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025: 77% at Special Education and 96% at Court, a 19-point difference. Special Education’s science result is suppressed, and many grade-specific results are unavailable.
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