Summary:
Zip code 95829 has one listed high school, Sheldon High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 2,368 students. With only one school in the area list, there is no local peer group to rank. In 2025–26, all-grades proficiency at Sheldon High was 62% in English language arts (ELA), 35% in mathematics and 47% in science. Its clearest strength is ELA and science relative to California, while math is below both the state and district.
Sheldon High is the only school, so it cannot be called a local leader or the lowest-performing school; compared with state benchmarks, it was 12 percentage points higher in ELA and 11 points higher in science, but 3 points lower in math. It also had a 96% graduation rate, 6 points above Elk Grove Unified, and a 2% dropout rate, 3 points below the district. Attendance is a relative concern: chronic absenteeism was 21%, 2 points above California’s rate, though 1 point below the district’s. In the separate 11th-grade comparison, the school was above California in all three subjects, including math by 3 points.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA fell by 4 percentage points, math rose by 6 and science rose by 3. Math’s gap with California narrowed from 8 points below to 3 points below, while the science lead over the state stayed about 11 points. SchoolDigger rated Sheldon High four stars and placed it in the 74th percentile statewide in 2025–26; its percentile was 74, 75 and 74 across the three reported years. For context, the 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 22.2, and 62% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible; California provides free meals to all students.
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