Summary:
ZIP code 95350 has two public high schools serving grades 9–12: Grace M. Davis High and Robert Elliott Alternative Education Center, both in the Modesto City High district. The schools differ in size and type: Davis enrolls 2,083 students, while Elliott is an alternative education center with 479 students. The clearest academic finding is that, despite one school leading the local comparison, both schools are below the state in all three reported all-grades subjects.
Davis stands out for proficiency: in 2025–2026, its scores were 37% in English Language Arts (ELA), 13% in math and 17% in science, compared with Elliott’s 3%, 4% and 8%. Davis led by 34 percentage points in ELA, and by 8.6 points in math and 8.5 in science. Still, Davis was below the state by 12 points in ELA, 26 in math and 19 in science; Elliott was below by 46, 34 and 28 points, respectively. Davis also had the stronger graduation and dropout figures: 98% graduated and 0% dropped out, compared with Elliott’s 87% graduation and 5% dropout. Chronic absenteeism is a major concern at Elliott: it was 78%, versus 24% at Davis and 18% statewide.
Recent test-score changes were mixed. ELA proficiency fell at both schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, by 3 points at Davis and 1 at Elliott; math was nearly unchanged at Davis and rose 3 points at Elliott, while science fell 1 point at Davis and rose 6 at Elliott. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking declined from 42 to 28 for Davis over three reported years; Elliott remained near the bottom, moving from 9 to 7, though it rebounded from 3 in 2024–2025. For additional context, Elliott’s student-teacher ratio was lower (14.4 vs. 21.9), while both schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025: 88% at Elliott and 80% at Davis. These differences describe two distinct schools and should not be taken as explaining their outcomes.
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