Summary:
ZIP code 95673 has six schools—three elementary, two middle and one high—serving kindergarten through grade 12, with enrollments from 331 to 1,594. The six-school averages are 44% in ELA, 36% in math and 28% in science, compared with state averages of 49%, 38% and 36%. Results differ considerably from school to school, and all-grades averages are not grade-matched across different school levels. The clearest area-wide concern is science: the average is 8 percentage points below the state, the widest gap of the three subjects.
Rio Linda High leads in all-grades ELA at 53%, 16 points above the lowest result, Orchard Elementary, at 37. Dry Creek Elementary leads math at 44%, 15 points above Rio Linda High at 29; Dry Creek also leads elementary ELA. Orchard leads science at 33%, while Westside Elementary is lowest at 21—a 13-point gap. Among the middle schools, Westside Preparatory Charter outperforms Rio Linda Preparatory Academy in same-grade ELA and math in grades 7 and 8, while Rio Linda Preparatory is stronger in grade 8 science.
Recent changes favor math and science: their six-school averages rose 4 points each from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while ELA fell 1 point. There are exceptions: Orchard’s science result rose 15 points, while ELA increased at only two schools. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings place the elementary schools in the 44th–57th percentiles and the middle schools in the 44th–63rd; Rio Linda Preparatory rose from the 30th to the 44th percentile since 2023–2024. All six report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, ranging from 75% at Orchard to 88% at Rio Linda Preparatory. Chronic absenteeism exceeds the state’s 18% at every school, reaching 52% at Rio Linda High, which also reports a 97% graduation rate versus 88% statewide.
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