Summary:
Zip code 95713 has two schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: Colfax Elementary (K–8, 345 students) and Colfax High (grades 9–12, 611 students), with 956 students combined. The clearest overall takeaway is that results vary considerably by school, subject, and grade, so one area-wide label would miss important differences.
In 2025–26, Colfax High stood out in all-grades ELA and science: it scored 78% in ELA, 30 points above Colfax Elementary at 48%, and 50% in science, 20 points above the elementary school’s 30%. Compared with state rates, the high school was 28 points higher in ELA and 14 points higher in science; the elementary school was 1 point below the state in ELA and 6 points below in science. Colfax Elementary narrowly led all-grades math, at 40% versus the high school’s 38%. Its grade-level results also included strong 8th-grade math (61%, 25 points above the state) and 4th-grade ELA (65%, 19 points above the state), alongside weaker grades, including 6th-grade math, 13 points below the state. For the high school, 11th-grade math was 6 points above the state rate, a more favorable comparison than its all-grades result.
Scores rose across all three subjects at Colfax Elementary from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA increased 18 points, math 11, and science 10. At Colfax High, ELA rose 16 points, while math fell 12 and science fell 2. SchoolDigger’s percentile for the elementary school rose from 28 to 49 over those years; the high school’s declined from 91 to 82. In 2024–25, both schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible: 41% of elementary students and 21% of high-school students. Student–teacher ratios were 19.4 and 22, respectively; these are contextual differences, not explanations for test results. Since the schools serve different grade spans, grade-level comparisons are more informative than all-grades comparisons.
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