Best High Schools in Zip Code 95468

Zip code 95468 has two public high schools in the Point Arena Joint Union High School District; both serve grades 9–12, with 131 students at Point Arena High and 8 at South Coast Continuation. The clearest achievement picture is for Point Arena: in 2025–26, English proficiency was 46%, close to California’s 49%, but math and science were each about 3%, far below the state’s 38% and 36%. The most important finding is this sharp difference between Point Arena’s English results and its much lower math and science results.

Point Arena High stands out for its reported graduation and dropout outcomes as well as its uneven test results: its 2025–26 graduation rate was 100%, 12 percentage points above the state and 8 above the district, while its dropout rate was 0%, 8 points below the state. Its English proficiency was 3 points below the state, compared with shortfalls of 35 points in math and 33 in science. There is not enough reported test information to identify a top or bottom school across the pair: South Coast Continuation has no supplied English or math scores, and its science result is suppressed. The data also report Point Arena chronic absenteeism at 91%, versus 18% statewide, a 73-point difference despite the strong graduation figure.

Recent results show improvement in English, but not a broad rise across subjects. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Point Arena’s English proficiency increased from 9% to 46%, while math rose only from 3% to 3% and science fell from 21% to 3%; SchoolDigger’s statewide rank percentile moved from 24 to 22 to 23 over those years. Staffing figures offer context, not a basis for explaining results: the student–teacher ratios were 10.4 at Point Arena and 7.8 at South Coast in 2024–25. Point Arena reported 48% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; South Coast reported 67% in 2023–24, so these figures are not a same-year comparison.