Summary:
ZIP code 96007 has two schools serving middle grades: Anderson Middle serves grades 6–8, and Happy Valley Elementary serves grades 4–8. In 2025–2026, Happy Valley had higher all-grades ELA and math proficiency, while the schools were nearly even in science. Across both schools, science was closest to the state rate, and math had the largest combined shortfall. The clearest overall takeaway is that both schools were below state proficiency in all three all-grades subjects.
Happy Valley stands out in all-grades ELA and math: 37% were proficient in ELA and 30% in math, compared with 31% and 19% at Anderson—gaps of 6 and 10 percentage points. Anderson had a slight science edge, with 30.2% proficient versus 29.6% at Happy Valley. Both schools’ averages were below state results: 34% versus 49% in ELA, 24% versus 38% in math, and 30% versus 36% in science. The grade-level picture is not uniform: Anderson led in grade 6 ELA and math by 4 and 3 points, while Happy Valley’s largest advantage was in grade 7, leading by 33 points in ELA and 26 in math. Happy Valley also exceeded state results in grade 7 ELA and math and grade 8 math.
Recent trends favor science: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, science proficiency rose by 19 points at Anderson and 6 at Happy Valley, while the schools’ average state gap narrowed from 15 to 6 points. The average gaps widened in ELA, from 13 to 16 points, and math, from 11 to 14. SchoolDigger ranked Happy Valley at the 50th percentile in 2025–2026, down from 58th the prior year but above its 30th-percentile standing in 2023–2024; Anderson was at the 28th percentile, down from 31st in 2023–2024. Anderson’s student–teacher ratio was 17:1, compared with 22.2:1 at Happy Valley; free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 74% and 75%, respectively, in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 25% at Anderson and 6% at Happy Valley, versus 18% statewide. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not direct like-for-like comparisons.
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