Schools in Zip Code 95538

Zip code 95538 has one listed school, Redwood Elementary, serving grades K–8 with 452 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was higher than Del Norte County Unified’s in English language arts (ELA), math, and science: 44% versus 32%, 33% versus 21%, and 38% versus 29%, respectively. Compared with California, Redwood was 6 percentage points below in ELA and math, but 2 points above in science. The clearest overall takeaway is that science is Redwood’s strongest result relative to the state, while ELA and math remain below state proficiency.

Since Redwood is the only school in the list, there are no other local schools to rank against it; the biggest contrasts are between its grade-level results. Fourth grade stands out: 60% were proficient in ELA, 14 percentage points above the state, and 51% in math, 9 points above. Eighth grade science was also strong, at 45%, 9 points above the state; eighth-grade ELA was 56%, 7 points above. The largest gaps in the other direction were sixth-grade math, at 16%, 21 points below the state, and third- and seventh-grade ELA, at 27% and 35%, respectively, 17 and 15 points below. These differences show why the all-grade results do not capture the uneven experiences across grades.

Results changed sharply by subject from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: science proficiency rose from 21% to 38%, while ELA fell from 49% to 44% and math from 34% to 33%. Science’s state gap improved by 14 percentage points, moving from 12 points below California to 2 above; the ELA and math gaps widened by 6 and 3 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking also declined, from the 54th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 45th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026. Other context includes a 23.2 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 59% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 23% and the state’s 18%. With only one school listed, these figures cannot establish school-to-school differences or explain the results.