Summary:
ZIP code 95695 has 12 schools—nine elementary, two middle and one high school—serving 6,196 students from elementary through high school. In the supplied all-grades results, the schools’ averages are 37% in ELA, 22% in math and 29% in science, compared with state averages of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important area-wide finding is that math shows the largest gap with the state: 16 percentage points.
Zamora Elementary stands out among elementary schools, leading the all-grades results in ELA at 53%, math at 41% and science at 58%; in fifth grade, it is 15 points above the state in ELA, 10 in math and 22 in science. Results vary widely across elementary schools: T. L. Whitehead Elementary has the lowest all-grades ELA result at 17%, Dingle Elementary the lowest math at 10%, and Gibson Elementary the lowest science at 13%. Douglass Middle leads Lee Middle in seventh- and eighth-grade ELA and math, with gaps of 10 to 15 points. At the high school, Woodland Senior High has a 95% graduation rate, 7 points above the state, while its 11th-grade scores trail the state by 10 to 17 points across the three subjects.
Recent changes are mixed: across the 12 school records, the average rose 1 point in ELA and 8 in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but fell 2 points in math. Zamora’s science result climbed 25 points, while its ELA fell 6 and math fell 11. SchoolDigger ranks Zamora at the 66th percentile and T. L. Whitehead at the 4th percentile in 2025–26; these rankings are distinct from test scores. As context, in 2024–25, 52% of Zamora students and 57% of Plainfield students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with 89% at T. L. Whitehead and 88% at Freeman; these figures describe school populations and do not explain outcomes. Area averages weight each school equally, rather than each student.
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