Summary:
Zip code 95236 has three schools serving kindergarten through fourth grade and grades 9–12: Linden Elementary, Linden High, and Pride Continuation. The clearest difference is in attendance and completion: chronic absenteeism is 75% at Pride, compared with about 16% at each Linden school; Pride’s graduation rate is 80% and dropout rate 15%, versus 100% and 0% at Linden High. Pride’s attendance and completion results stand apart from the two Linden schools.
Academic strengths vary by subject. In 2025–2026 all-grades ELA, Linden High leads at about 50%, compared with 30% at Linden Elementary and 0% at Pride; High is essentially at the state rate, while Elementary is about 20 percentage points below it. Math shows the reverse pattern for the Linden schools: Elementary scores about 42%, 24 points above High’s 19%, and slightly above the state rate. Pride’s math score is suppressed and cannot be compared. In science, High scores 23% and Pride 0%; Elementary has no reported result. For High’s 11th-grade ELA, the result is about 50%, roughly 8 points below the 11th-grade state rate.
Changes over time are mixed: among six school-subject comparisons with scores in both years, three moved closer to state results and three farther away; the average absolute gap widened from about 12 to 15 points. SchoolDigger rankings for 2025–2026 put Linden High at the 41st percentile and Elementary at the 40th, down 15 and 13 points, respectively, from their 2023–2024 percentiles. Pride’s latest supplied SchoolDigger ranking is older—1st percentile in 2023–2024. The 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measure is 69% at High, 65% at Elementary, and 89% at Pride; these figures describe school context, not a cause of outcomes. Student–teacher ratios are 19.5 at High, 24.3 at Elementary, and 13.5 at Pride. Because the schools serve different grades and Pride has some suppressed scores, all-grades comparisons are not fully like-for-like.
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