Summary:
Zip code 95360 has seven schools in Newman-Crows Landing Unified: three elementary schools, one junior high, two high schools (including a continuation school), and one independent-study school. Enrollment ranges from 20 students at Newman-Crows Landing Independent Study to 925 at Orestimba High. The most important concern is attendance at West Side Valley High (Continuation): chronic absenteeism is 85%, compared with 9% at Orestimba.
Hunt Elementary stands out among elementary schools, leading in all-grades ELA at 42% and science at 30%; it also leads fifth-grade ELA at 59%, compared with 48% at Hurd Barrington and 37% at Von Renner. That fifth-grade result is 10 points above the state’s 49%. The high-school results show a sharp contrast: Orestimba’s 11th-grade proficiency is 53% in ELA, 19% in math and 20% in science, while West Side Valley reports 0% in all three. Orestimba’s ELA result is 4 points below the state’s 57%. West Side Valley’s graduation rate is 89%, slightly above the state’s 88%, so its results are not uniformly low across measures.
Hunt’s scores have improved notably: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its ELA rose 10 points and science rose 13 points. Its SchoolDigger ranking percentile also climbed from 7 to 40 between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026. Across the three elementary schools, the average rose 2 points in ELA and 7 in science, but fell 2 points in math. As context, all schools report a free/reduced lunch eligible measure for school year 2024–2025; shares range from 40% at Independent Study to 80% at Hunt. Hunt’s student-teacher ratio is 17.8, compared with 21.4 at Hurd Barrington and 21.2 at Von Renner. Results should be considered in light of the schools’ different grade spans; Independent Study’s current test scores are suppressed.
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