Summary:
Zip code 95965 has six elementary schools: three K–5 schools, two K–8 schools, and one kindergarten-only school; five reported test results in 2024–2025 and four in 2025–2026, while Siskiyou Avenue reported none. The clearest recent standout is Plumas Avenue Elementary, which led the K–5 schools in ELA and science and tied for the math lead in 2025–2026.
Plumas Avenue scored 44% in ELA, 33% in math, and 39% in science; its fifth-grade ELA was especially strong at 59%, compared with the state’s 49%. Poplar Avenue Elementary tied Plumas in all-grades math at 33%, but scored 33% in ELA and 23% in science. Sierra Avenue Elementary was lowest in K–5 ELA and math, at 25% and 16%; Plumas led Sierra by 19 percentage points in ELA and 16 in math. The group’s averages were below state rates in all three subjects: by 15 points in ELA, 11 in math, and 7 in science. In 2024–2025, STREAM Charter had the highest reported all-grades ELA and science scores among the five schools with results, at 40% and 39%; its science score was 6 points above the state rate.
K–5 averages rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 2 percentage points in ELA, 1 in math, and 3 in science, though science gains did not keep pace with the state’s improvement. School results varied: Plumas improved in all three subjects, while Sierra’s math fell by 5 points and Spring Valley Elementary’s ELA and math fell by 7 and 13 points; Spring Valley’s latest science score is suppressed. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 rankings placed Plumas at the 49th percentile, ahead of Poplar at the 33rd and Sierra at the 13th. Enrollment and reported income measures offer context, not explanations: Plumas and Poplar had 322 and 321 students, student-teacher ratios of 24.7 and 21.3, and free/reduced lunch eligible measures of 87% and 84% for 2024–2025. Siskiyou Avenue Elementary had 46 students and a 94% free/reduced lunch eligible measure that year, but no test scores.
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