Summary:
Zip code 95650 has six schools: five K–8 elementary schools and one high school serving grades 9–12. In 2025–26, the six-school averages were 70% proficient in English language arts, 63% in math, and 60% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. Science showed the widest spread among schools, from 45% at Loomis Elementary to 70% at Placer Elementary. The all-grades comparison includes schools with different grade spans, so results are not perfectly like-for-like. The clearest area-wide finding is that average proficiency was above the state in all three subjects, with the largest advantage in math: 24 percentage points.
Loomis Basin Charter stands out in ELA and math, leading the six schools at 79% and 76%; those results were 30 and 38 points above the state. Placer Elementary leads science at 70%, 34 points above the state. At the lower end, H. Clarke Powers Elementary has the lowest ELA result, 61%, while Del Oro High has the lowest all-grades math result, 56%. Loomis Elementary is lowest among the elementary schools in science at 45%. Del Oro’s high-school grade span makes its all-grades math result less directly comparable with the K–8 schools.
Science improved at every school from 2024–25 to 2025–26: the six-school average rose 9 points, compared with a 3-point state increase. ELA and math were less consistent; the average ELA result fell 1 point, while math was essentially flat. Grade-level results add useful detail: at Loomis Elementary, grade 3 and 4 ELA results were 76% and 86%, compared with 48%–51% in grades 6–8. SchoolDigger ranks Loomis Basin Charter highest locally at the 93rd statewide percentile, and H. Clarke Powers Elementary lowest at the 80th. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible figures ranged from 7% at Placer Elementary to 21% at Loomis Elementary; the figures and achievement results do not form a simple school-by-school ordering.
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