Summary:
Zip code 94508 has one listed school, Howell Mountain Elementary, which serves kindergarten through eighth grade and has 85 students. With no other listed schools, there is no meaningful comparison among local schools; the clearest benchmark is California overall. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades proficiency was 24% in English language arts (ELA) and 17% in math, compared with 49% and 38% statewide. The most important finding is that the school trailed state results in both subjects, by 25 points in ELA and 22 points in math.
Howell Mountain Elementary is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this one-school group by definition, not a meaningful local leader or trailer. Grade-matched results show where the gaps are largest: in 2025–2026, third-grade ELA was 27% proficient versus 44% statewide, while fourth-grade ELA was 8% versus 46% statewide—a 37-point gap. In math, third grade was 27% versus 47% statewide, and fourth grade was 17% versus 42%, gaps of 20 and 26 points. The school’s 2025–2026 science result is suppressed; in 2024–2025, science proficiency was 17%, compared with 33% statewide.
Results moved farther from the state benchmark between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: the school’s ELA proficiency fell by 3 points while the state rose by less than one point, widening the gap by 4 points; math fell by 1 point at the school while rising by 1 point statewide, widening that gap by 2 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 5,300th of 5,804 statewide in 2025–2026, at the 9th percentile, compared with the 48th percentile in 2022–2023; these rankings are not test-score percentages. Other context includes a 14.1 student–teacher ratio and 60% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 34% in 2025–2026, versus 18% statewide. Because the list has only one school, it does not support peer comparisons or a complete picture of suppressed grade-level results.
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