Best High Schools in Zip Code 95066

High schools in ZIP code 95066 include one school, Scotts Valley High, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 611 students. With no other listed high schools for comparison, this is the only local school to assess; its most important result is that it scored above the state in all three tested subjects in 2025–2026.

Scotts Valley High’s strongest subject result was ELA, with 68% proficient, 19 percentage points above the state’s 49%; science was 52%, 16 points above the state’s 36%; and mathematics was 52%, 14 points above the state’s 38%, making it the school’s narrowest state advantage. It also had a 99% graduation rate, compared with 88% statewide and 91% in Scotts Valley Unified. Its 1% dropout rate was below the district’s 8% and the state’s 8%. Chronic absenteeism is a less favorable comparison with the district: 11%, versus 8%, although below the state’s 18%. Since there is just one school in the list, there is no local top-to-bottom school ranking.

Across the two available years, the school remained above state proficiency in every subject, but its average advantage narrowed by 2 percentage points, from 18 points to 16. Science drove most of that change: its state gap narrowed by 5 points, while the ELA gap narrowed by 1 point and the mathematics gap widened by 1 point. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also shifted down from 165th of 2,159 schools (92nd percentile, 5 stars) in 2023–2024 to 293rd of 2,137 (86th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026. Context figures include a 19.3:1 student-teacher ratio and 11% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these describe the school but do not allow comparison with other listed local schools.