Best Public Schools in Zip Code 95465

Zip code 95465 has two schools in the Harmony Union Elementary district: Harmony Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 1, and Salmon Creek School - A Charter, serving grades 2–8. The available 2025–2026 test results show Salmon Creek above California in English language arts and science, but below the state in math. Its ELA proficiency was 66% versus 49% statewide, and science was 50% versus 36%; math was 35% versus 38%. The most important takeaway is that Salmon Creek’s strong ELA and science results do not extend to math, its clearest area of concern relative to the state.

Salmon Creek’s strongest reported grade-level results are in third grade: ELA was 94% versus 44% statewide, and math was 78% versus 47%. Results are weaker in fifth-grade math, at 16% compared with 37% statewide, a 21-point gap; fifth-grade ELA was close to the state, at 48% versus 49%. Harmony Elementary has no test-score entries in the supplied data, and Salmon Creek’s sixth-grade ELA and math figures are suppressed, so the data cannot establish which school performs better academically.

Salmon Creek’s results have moved in different directions: over two years, ELA rose 2 points, math fell 4 points, and science fell 23 points, though its latest science result remains above the state. SchoolDigger places Salmon Creek in its four-star category in each of the three recent years, with percentile rankings of 72, 74, and 71. Other measures are fairly close between schools: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible was 25% at Salmon Creek and 27% at Harmony, while student-teacher ratios were 18.5 and 16.8. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 22% at Salmon Creek and 19% at Harmony, compared with 18% statewide.