Best High Schools in Zip Code 95695

Zip code 95695 has one high school, Woodland Senior High, serving grades 9–12 in Woodland, with 1,155 students. In 2025–26, its proficiency was below the state in all three reported subjects: 47% in English language arts (ELA), 15% in math and 26% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. ELA was closest to the state, while math had the largest shortfall at 24 percentage points. Math is the clearest academic concern for families to weigh.

There is no within-area top or bottom school to compare: Woodland is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school in this one-school list, which does not establish how it compares with other local high schools. Against the state, its ELA gap was 2 points and its science gap was 10 points; in 11th grade, ELA was 10 points below the state, math 17 points below and science 12 points below. Other outcomes offer a mixed picture: graduation was 95%, 7 points above the state’s 88%, and dropout was 4%, 4 points below the state’s 8%. Chronic absenteeism, however, was 26%, 8 points above the state’s 18%. Compared with Woodland Joint Unified, graduation was 4 points higher, while chronic absenteeism was also higher by 4 points.

Test results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with science showing the strongest gain: proficiency rose 7 percentage points, from 19% to 26%, and its gap with the state narrowed by 4 points. ELA increased by 2 points and math by 1, though the math gap narrowed by less than 1 point. SchoolDigger ranked Woodland 1,302 of 2,137 California high schools in 2025–26, at the 39th percentile; that was 43 places better than the prior year, but 189 places worse than in 2023–24, when it ranked at the 48th percentile. For context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 19.8 in 2024–25, spending was $21,350 per student, and 77% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. These are observations, not explanations for the results.