Summary:
ZIP code 95490 has eight schools—four elementary, one middle and three high school—with 1,792 students in all, from 57 at Sanhedrin Alternative to 397 at Willits High. The latest all-grades results show wide differences among schools, especially in math, but no school’s top result reaches the state proficiency level.
Sherwood stands out in 2025–26 math, with 36% proficient—20 percentage points above the other schools’ average and just 2 points below the state. It also leads ELA at 28%, 6 points above its peers’ average but 21 below the state. Blosser Lane Elementary leads science at 27%, 17 points above the other schools’ average and 9 below the state. At the lower end, Baechtel Grove Middle has the lowest math result, 6%—17 points below the other schools’ average. Sanhedrin Alternative has the lowest ELA result, 14%, 11 points below its peers’ average; its math result is stronger at 27%.
Results improved on average from 2024–25 to 2025–26: comparable schools gained 3 points in ELA and 6 in math, while four schools with science results in both years gained 8 points. The state’s results changed less in ELA and math, and rose 3 points in science. Progress was not uniform: Sherwood’s ELA fell 5 points, while Sanhedrin Alternative’s math rose 18. SchoolDigger rankings also moved in different directions: Sanhedrin rose from the 16th to the 32nd percentile, while Willits Elementary Charter fell from the 71st to the 48th. Student-teacher ratios range from 13.3 at Willits High to 23.9 at Blosser Lane; all schools report free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–25, ranging from 51% to 77%. High-school outcomes differ sharply: Willits High reports 98% graduation, compared with 59% at Sanhedrin. Schools serve different grade spans, and some results are unavailable, so comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.
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