Summary:
ZIP code 95323 has three schools serving kindergarten through grade 8: Hickman Charter serves K–8, Hickman Elementary serves K–5, and Hickman Middle serves grades 6–8; there is no high school. In 2025–26 all-grades results, proficiency ranged from 41% to 65% in ELA, 26% to 57% in math, and 36% to 46% in science. The clearest takeaway is that performance varies substantially by school and grade, rather than reflecting one consistent level across the area.
Hickman Elementary stands out in grades 3–5, with higher ELA and math proficiency than Hickman Charter in all six shared-grade comparisons; the largest gap is 41 percentage points in third-grade math, 62% versus 20%. Hickman Middle leads Hickman Charter in every shared ELA and math grade. Its strongest results are in seventh grade: 79% in ELA and 62% in math, respectively 28 and 24 points above state results. Hickman Charter is below the state in all-grades ELA and math, but its eighth-grade ELA is 55%, about 5 points above the state. Because the schools serve different grade spans, shared-grade comparisons are more like-for-like than all-grades results.
From 2024–25 to 2025–26, results rose in all three subjects at Hickman Elementary and Hickman Middle, while Hickman Charter declined in ELA and science and was unchanged in math; elementary and middle science gains were smaller than the state’s. SchoolDigger gives the charter 2 stars and a 36th-percentile rank, compared with 4 stars and ranks of 75th for elementary and 80th for middle. For additional context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 41% at the charter, 47% at elementary, and 36% at middle; student-teacher ratios were 24.6, 23.6, and 20.6, respectively. These figures describe different school contexts but do not by themselves explain achievement differences.
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