Summary:
Three high schools serve Willits in ZIP code 95490: Willits High and Sanhedrin Alternative serve grades 9–12, while Willits Charter serves grades 6–12. Enrollment ranges from 57 students at Sanhedrin to 397 at Willits High. Across the two schools with 2025–2026 test results, average proficiency was about 20% in ELA, 18% in math and 10% in science, compared with state rates of about 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important finding is that recent proficiency remains well below state rates, despite improvement at both reporting schools.
Willits Charter was the 2024–2025 proficiency leader: it scored 39% in ELA, 17% in math and 36% in science, and its science rate was 3 percentage points above the state’s. Sanhedrin Alternative was at the bottom in ELA and science that year, with 10% and 0%, while Willits High had the lowest math result at 5%. The latest results show a different mix: Willits High led ELA at 25%, while Sanhedrin led math at 27% and science at 11%; all were below state rates. Willits High also had a 98% graduation rate and 2% dropout rate in 2025–2026, compared with 88% and 8% statewide. Sanhedrin’s graduation and dropout rates were 59% and 41%.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 at both schools with results in both years: Willits High gained about 5 points in ELA and math and 4 in science; Sanhedrin gained about 5 in ELA, 18 in math and 11 in science. Charter has no 2025–2026 results here, so the trend covers only two schools. SchoolDigger ranked Charter 831st of 2,162 schools (62nd percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025; its 2025–2026 rankings were 1,458th of 2,137 (32nd percentile, 2 stars) for Sanhedrin and 1,704th (20th percentile, 1 star) for Willits High. The 2024–2025 measure was free/reduced lunch eligible: 51% at Willits High, 69% at Charter and 77% at Sanhedrin. Reported student-teacher ratios were 13.3 at Willits High, 15 at Charter and 16.3 at Sanhedrin; these figures, like the income measure, provide context but do not explain school results.
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