Summary:
Zip code 95454 has one listed elementary school, Laytonville Elementary, serving kindergarten through eighth grade with 217 students. Its 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency was 21% in English language arts (ELA), 17% in math and 20% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. The school was below the state in all three subjects, with the widest gap in ELA at 28 percentage points.
There is no other listed school to identify as a local leader or trailer, but results vary by grade within Laytonville Elementary. Sixth-grade ELA was its strongest grade-level result relative to the state: 29% proficient, 19 points below the state’s 48%. Eighth-grade ELA was furthest behind, at 9% versus 49%, a 40-point gap. Fourth-grade math had the school’s smallest math gap, at 21% versus 42% statewide, or 22 points below. In science, eighth grade was closer to the state than fifth grade: 23% versus 35% in eighth grade, and 17% versus 35% in fifth. Every reported grade-subject result was below its corresponding state result.
All-grades results worsened relative to the state from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, especially in ELA and science. ELA fell from 31% to 21% while the state stayed near 49%, widening the gap from 18 to 28 points; science fell from 31% to 20% as the state rose from 33% to 36%, widening the gap from 2 to 16 points. Math was nearly unchanged at 16% and 17%, while its gap grew from 21 to 22 points. SchoolDigger rates the school one star; its rank was 5,183 of 5,804 schools (11th percentile) in 2025–2026, versus 4,785 of 5,857 (18th percentile) the prior year. Other context: the 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 19.2:1, and 75% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch that year. Chronic absenteeism was 40% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide and 39.7% in Laytonville Unified.
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