Best High Schools in Zip Code 95694

ZIP code 95694 has two public high schools serving grades 9–12 in Winters Joint Unified: Winters High enrolls 479 students, while Wolfskill High enrolls 20. The clearest difference is attendance: in 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 92% at Wolfskill and 24% at Winters, a 68-point gap.

Winters High has the strongest reported academic results overall, including a 98% graduation rate in 2025–26—10 points above the state—and 51% ELA proficiency, about 2 points above the state. Its main weakness is math: 10% were proficient, 28 points below the state; science proficiency was 25%, 11 points below. Wolfskill High stands out for its much higher absenteeism, but its school test scores are suppressed, so these data cannot compare the schools’ academic results directly. Winters’ attendance is also above the state rate by 6 points and the district rate by 8 points, despite its strong graduation result.

Winters High’s results moved farther below state levels overall from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA proficiency fell from 58% to 51%, and math from 20% to 10%; science edged down from 25% to 24.8%. Its average state gap across the three subjects worsened by 7 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile also fell from 57 to 39. The schools differ in resources and student context as well: in 2024–25, Wolfskill’s student–teacher ratio was 7.8 versus 17.1 at Winters, and spending was $37,741 versus $24,274 per student. Free/reduced-lunch-eligible figures that year were 90% at Wolfskill and 61% at Winters; these are observations, not explanations for school results.