Summary:
Zip code 95358 has nine schools: eight elementary schools and one middle school, with no high school listed; eight schools have 2025–26 test results. Across those schools, the average proficiency was 44% in ELA, 37% in math and 27% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The clearest area-wide finding is that the average school scored below the state in all three subjects, with the largest gap in science.
Paradise Elementary led in every subject, with 61% proficient in both ELA and math and 41% in science—12, 23 and 5 points above state results, respectively. Paradise Charter was next in ELA and math, at 58% and 56%, but its 35% science result was just below the state’s 36%. At the other end, Evelyn Hanshaw Middle had the lowest ELA and math results, at 27% and 21%; Bret Harte Elementary had the lowest science result, at 13%. Hart-Ransom Elementary offers a notable grade-level contrast: its eighth-grade ELA result was 73%, 24 points above the state.
Recent changes are mixed. Fairview Elementary had the strongest ELA gain, rising 14 points to 50%, just above the state; its math and science results, 27% and 14%, were close to Bret Harte’s 26% and 13%. Across the eight schools, the average moved slightly closer to the state in ELA but farther behind in math and science. SchoolDigger ranks Paradise Elementary at the 83rd percentile and Paradise Charter at the 76th (both four stars), while Hart-Ransom is at the 59th percentile (three stars); Fairview’s ranking rose from the 9th to the 45th percentile between 2023–24 and 2025–26. As context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 92% at Fairview and 87% at Bret Harte; Paradise Elementary had 59 students and a 13.1-to-1 student-teacher ratio, compared with 118 students and a 26.2-to-1 ratio at Paradise Charter. These measures describe different school contexts, not reasons for test results.
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