Schools in Zip Code 93286

Zip code 93286 has six schools in Woodlake Unified, serving elementary, middle and high school grades; enrollment ranges from 13 at Woodlake Community Day to 646 at Woodlake High. Across three schools with reported all-grades results, the 2025–26 average was 47% in English language arts (ELA), compared with 49% statewide, and 25% in math, compared with 38% statewide. The clearest area-wide concern is math: the average was 14 points below the state, while ELA was 2 points below.

Woodlake High led reported all-grades ELA results at 63%, 14 points above the state; its 11th graders also scored 63%, 5 points above the state. Castle Rock Elementary had the strongest reported all-grades math score, 35%—10 points above the district figure and 4 below the state. Its third graders exceeded state results in ELA and math by 4 and 2 points, respectively, though fourth- and fifth-grade results were below state levels in both subjects. Woodlake Valley Middle had the lowest reported all-grades ELA and math scores: 35% and 19%, respectively, or 15 and 20 points below the state. All-grades scores are not direct grade-for-grade comparisons because the schools serve different grades.

Recent trends are mixed, with Castle Rock showing the clearest gains from 2024–25 to 2025–26: 11 points in ELA, 6 in math and 18 in science. In contrast, Woodlake Valley Middle’s math score fell 4 points; across the three schools, average ELA and science rose 6 points each, while average math fell 1. SchoolDigger’s percentile rank rose from 34 to 47 for Castle Rock, while Woodlake High’s fell from 64 to 52 despite its ELA improvement. Reported 2024–25 student-teacher ratios were 24.5 at Castle Rock and 19.3 at Woodlake High; their free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 92% and 87%, respectively. Attendance also differs sharply: chronic absenteeism was 44% at Bravo Lake High and 67% at Woodlake Community Day, versus 12% at Woodlake High.