Summary:
Zip code 95912 has four schools serving kindergarten through grade 12: Arbuckle Elementary (K–5), Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High (6–8), and Pierce High and Arbuckle Alternative High (Continuation) (9–12). Across the three schools with reported 2025–2026 results, average proficiency was below the state in every subject: 42% in English language arts (ELA) versus 49%, 26% in math versus 38%, and 28% in science versus 36%. The largest shared academic gap is in math, where the average was 12 percentage points below the state.
The strongest results depend on the subject. Pierce High led in ELA, at 60% compared with Lloyd G. Johnson at 33%, a 26-point gap, and led in science at 40%, 21 points above Arbuckle Elementary at 19%. But Arbuckle Elementary led in math, scoring 32% compared with Pierce High at 22%; Lloyd G. Johnson had the lowest reported ELA result. Attendance also separates the high schools: Pierce High had 9% chronic absenteeism, below the state’s 18%, while Arbuckle Alternative High had 80%. Its current test scores are suppressed.
Results moved farther from state levels over the two years shown: the comparable school average fell from 47% to 42% in ELA, 27% to 26% in math, and 35% to 28% in science, while state results rose in all three subjects. Science declined at each of the three schools with reported results; math rose at Arbuckle Elementary and Pierce High, but fell at Lloyd G. Johnson. SchoolDigger rates Pierce High 3 stars and at the 61st percentile, compared with 2 stars and the 32nd percentile for Arbuckle Elementary and 2 stars and the 33rd percentile for Lloyd G. Johnson. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–2025 ranged from 70% at Arbuckle Alternative High to 76% at Pierce High; these figures provide context, not an explanation for school results.
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