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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 93286

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Top rankedCastle Rock Elementary3073^rd of 5,804 California elementary schools

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Castle Rock Elementary up 1,192 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

Zip code 93286 has two elementary schools in Woodlake Unified, serving grades K–5 across two grade spans: Francis J. White Learning Center serves K–2, and Castle Rock Elementary serves grades 3–5. The clearest achievement trend is at Castle Rock: its scores improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, although its latest all-grades results remained below state results.

Castle Rock has the strongest reported grade-level results in grade 3, scoring 4 points above the state in ELA and 2 points above in mathematics. Its grade 4 and 5 mathematics results are the clearest weaker spots: they were 14 and 11 points below the state, respectively; grade 4 and 5 ELA were each about 7 points below. Because only Castle Rock has supplied test scores, the data cannot establish which school has stronger overall achievement. Attendance is a positive measure for both: in 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 8% at Castle Rock and 10% at Francis J. White, compared with 18% statewide. Francis J. White had the lower student-teacher ratio, 20.9 students per teacher versus Castle Rock’s 24.5.

Castle Rock’s all-grades scores rose 11 points in ELA, 6 in mathematics and 18 in science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, gains larger than the state’s in each subject; its SchoolDigger percentile also climbed from 27 to 47, and its rating increased from 1 star to 2. That improvement followed a drop from the 34th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 27th in 2024–2025. As context, in 2024–2025, 93% of Francis J. White students and 92% of Castle Rock students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures describe the schools’ context, not a reason for their results.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				CAST Science (2026)		Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2026)				Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2026)				Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 5th Grade	CAST Science All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Francis J. White Learning Center	Public	K-2	700 North Cypress St.	Woodlake	93286	Tulare County	Woodlake Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(559) 564-8021	502	24	20.9	92.8%	19 (3.8%)	1 (0.2%)	479 (95.4%)	2 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)								(n/a)											$25,991	$24,614	$1,377
Castle Rock Elementary	Public	3-5	360 North Castle Rock St.	Woodlake	93286	Tulare County	Woodlake Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(559) 564-8001	418	17	24.5	91.6%	22 (5.3%)	2 (0.5%)	387 (92.6%)	3 (0.7%)	3 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	42.5	3073^rd of 5804 public elementary schools	47.1%		26.6	4265^th of 5857 public elementary schools	27.2%	1192	30.6	30.6	47.6	38.5	42.5	43.0	49.0	28.9	26.0	34.8	$26,800	$25,250	$1,550

Cities Near Zip Code 93286

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Woodlake	0.09 mi	7	658^th
Lemon Cove	4.65 mi	2	459^th
Visalia	6.02 mi	58	517^th
Ivanhoe	6.68 mi	1	617^th
Exeter	8.4 mi	8	448^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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