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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 96032

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Top rankedScott Valley Junior High1619^th of 2,703 California middle schools

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Summary:

ZIP code 96032 has two schools in Scott Valley Unified: Fort Jones Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 2, and Scott Valley Junior High, serving grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, the junior high’s proficiency rates were below the state in all three reported subjects: 35% in ELA, 33% in math, and 22% in science, with gaps of 14, 5, and 14 percentage points, respectively. The supplied data include no test scores for the elementary school, so an academic comparison between the two schools is not available. The key academic finding is that the junior high fell furthest behind the state in ELA and science, while math was comparatively closer.

Attendance is the clearest difference between the schools: Fort Jones Elementary had the lower chronic absenteeism rate, at 16% in 2025–2026, while Scott Valley Junior High had the higher rate, at 33%. Fort Jones was 2 percentage points below the 18% state rate; the junior high was 15 points above it and 11 points above the 22% district rate. The junior high also had a notable grade-level bright spot: sixth-grade math proficiency was 47%, 9 points above the state rate. By contrast, eighth-grade math was 22%, 14 points below the state.

Recent results moved in different directions at the junior high: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, science proficiency fell from 41% to 22% and ELA from 40% to 35%, while math rose from 28% to 33% and its state gap narrowed from 9 to 5 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking for the junior high was 40 in 2025–2026, down 9 points from 2023–2024; Fort Jones’s last reported ranking was 63 in 2022–2023, down 6 points from 2020–2021. In 2024–2025, the schools’ student-teacher ratios were 16.9 at Fort Jones and 20.7 at the junior high. Their reported free/reduced lunch eligible measures for that school year were 58% and 66%, respectively; these are context about the schools, not an explanation for outcomes.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				CAST Science (2026)		Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2026)				Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2026)				Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 8th Grade	CAST Science All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Fort Jones Elementary	Public	K-2	11501 Mathews St.	Fort Jones	96032	Siskiyou County	Scott Valley Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(530) 468-2412	124	7	16.9	58.1%	50 (40.3%)	0 (0.0%)	18 (14.5%)	0 (0.0%)	17 (13.7%)	0 (0.0%)	39 (31.5%)								(n/a)											$31,914	$30,340	$1,574
Scott Valley Junior High	Public	6-8	237 Butte St.	Fort Jones	96032	Siskiyou County	Scott Valley Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(530) 468-5565	153	7	20.7	66.0%	87 (56.9%)	2 (1.3%)	18 (11.8%)	2 (1.3%)	11 (7.2%)	1 (0.7%)	32 (20.9%)	35.5	1619^th of 2703 public middle schools	40.1%		44.2	1357^th of 2761 public middle schools	50.9%	262	21.8	21.8	34.9	31.0	38.2	35.0	46.5	33.3	21.8	32.9	$22,258	$21,116	$1,142
Scott Valley Community Day	Public	7-12	450 Campus Way	Etna	96032	Siskiyou County	Scott Valley Unified	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(530) 467-5279	0			—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)

Cities Near Zip Code 96032

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Fort Jones	1.87 mi	2	444^th
Etna	10.12 mi	4	153^rd
Yreka	14.79 mi	10	504^th
Horse Creek	15.56 mi	1
Montague	17.8 mi	6	654^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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