Best High Schools in Zip Code 95963

ZIP code 95963 has three high schools serving grades 9–12: Orland High (725 students), Success One! (105), and North Valley High (Continuation) (38). The most important finding is that outcomes differ sharply among these schools, so the ZIP code alone does not describe a uniform school experience.

Orland High stands out on reported achievement and completion measures: its 2025–2026 proficiency was 44% in English language arts (ELA), compared with 13% at each of the other schools, and 14% in math, versus 13% at North Valley and 0% at Success One!. Orland’s ELA result was 5 percentage points below California’s 49%; the other two schools were each 37 points below. Orland also had a 97% graduation rate, 1% dropout rate, and 14% chronic absenteeism, compared with Success One!’s 7%, 76%, and 63%. North Valley’s graduation rate was 85%, and its dropout and absenteeism rates were 15% and 73%. North Valley’s science result is suppressed; among the two reported results, Orland scored 24% and Success One! 8%.

Results changed in different directions across subjects: Orland’s ELA and science scores rose by 3 and 6 percentage points from 2024–2025, while its math fell by 6 points; North Valley’s ELA and math each rose from 0% to 13%. SchoolDigger rankings also moved differently: North Valley rose from the 0th to the 20th percentile between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, while Orland fell from the 45th to the 36th percentile. These rankings are separate from subject test-score changes. School context also varies: student-teacher ratios were 18.3 at Orland, 10.3 at North Valley, and 31.7 at Success One!, while 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 78%, 92%, and 48%, respectively. These measures describe differences among the schools, but do not establish what explains student outcomes.