Summary:
ZIP code 95963 has 10 schools: five elementary schools, one middle school, three high schools, and one alternative school, serving families from elementary through high school. Mill Street Elementary has no test-score entries, and grade spans differ across schools. The central takeaway is that results vary sharply from school to school: the strongest-to-weakest reported scores span about 59 points in ELA, 70 in math, and 52 in science.
Lake Elementary leads in all-grades ELA, with 71% proficient, while Plaza Elementary leads in math at 70% and science at 56%; both schools exceed state results in all three subjects. Lake’s ELA score is 4 points above Plaza’s, and Plaza leads Lake by 18 points in math and 10 in science. At the lower end, North Valley High (Continuation) and Success One! tie at 13% in ELA, about 32 points below the average of other reporting schools. Success One! reports 0% in math, 27 points below the other schools’ average; William Finch has the lowest reported science score, 4%.
Average school results improved more than state results in ELA and math from 2024–25 to 2025–26: gains were 5 points in ELA and 3 in math, versus less than 1 point and 1 point statewide. Science gains averaged 2.5 points, compared with 3.3 statewide. Individual results differ: Capay Joint Union Elementary gained 16 points in ELA, while William Finch fell 20 points in science. SchoolDigger places Plaza at the 88th percentile in 2025–26, up 10 points from 2023–24. Plaza, Capay, and Lake have similar enrollment and 2024–25 student-teacher ratios of 21.5, 21.1, and 20.6, yet their scores differ; their free/reduced lunch eligible shares that school year were 30%, 41%, and 43%, respectively. These are useful points of comparison, not explanations for results.
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