Summary:
The 95469 middle-school list contains one school, Potter Valley Junior High, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 39 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 21% in English language arts (ELA), 19% in math and 13% in science, below the statewide results of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. The most important finding is that the school was behind the state in all three subjects, with the widest gap in ELA: 28 percentage points.
Because this is the area’s only listed school, there is no meaningful local top or bottom performer; Potter Valley Junior High is the sole option in the data. Math was its strongest subject relative to the state, with a 19-point gap, compared with 23 points in science and 28 in ELA. It was also below Potter Valley Community Unified in each subject, by 2 points in math, 8 in ELA and 12 in science. Grade-level results show that the math picture varies: grade 7 was 6 points below the state, while grade 8 was 28 points below. Grade 8 ELA was 32 points below the state, versus a 24-point gap in grade 7.
Results declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell from 30% to 21%, math from 23% to 19%, and science from 38% to 13%. The school’s state comparison moved farther behind in all three subjects; most notably, science shifted from 5 points above the state to 23 points below. SchoolDigger ranked the school in the 14th percentile with one star in 2025–2026, down from the 42nd percentile and two stars the prior year. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 9% versus 14% districtwide and 18% statewide; the student-teacher ratio was 15.1 in 2024–2025; and 67% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. With only one school listed, these figures cannot be compared across local schools.
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