Summary:
Five high schools in ZIP code 95123 serve grades 9–12, 10–12, or 11–12 and enroll 4,134 students. Four have 2025–26 test results; Summit Public School: Tahoma has results from 2024–25. Among the four schools with current results, 11th-grade scores range from 14% to 67% in ELA, 0% to 46% in math, and 5% to 58% in science. The most important finding is how widely results differ: Santa Teresa High leads, while other schools have much lower results.
Santa Teresa High is the current score leader, with 11th-grade results of 67% in ELA, 46% in math, and 58% in science—9, 14, and 20 percentage points above state results, respectively. At the other end, Calero High had the lowest ELA and science results, at 14% and 5%, while Phoenix High had the lowest math result, at 0%. Tahoma also stands out in its earlier results: in 2024–25 it scored 66% in 11th-grade ELA and 55% in math, and SchoolDigger ranked it 206 of 2,162 schools, at the 90th percentile with five stars. Calero reported an 86% graduation rate, close to the state’s 88%, despite 5% science proficiency and 60% chronic absenteeism.
Recent changes are mixed: across the same four schools, All Grades averages rose 3 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 3 in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26. The group narrowed its state gap in ELA and math, but fell further behind in science. Santa Teresa remained the leader despite declines in all three subjects; Phoenix made larger gains in ELA and science but still had low results. SchoolDigger ranked Santa Teresa at the 85th percentile in 2025–26, compared with Oak Grove at the 57th and Calero and Phoenix at the 16th. All five schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25, ranging from 28% at Santa Teresa to 67% at Calero; Santa Teresa’s student-teacher ratio was 22.4, versus 18.6 at Calero and 17.2 at Phoenix. Tahoma’s older results are not directly comparable with the other schools’ current scores.
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