Summary:
ZIP code 96032 has one elementary school, Fort Jones Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 2 and enrolling 124 students. With just one school listed and no subject test scores, the data cannot show how schools compare academically or whether the school leads or trails in math or reading. The clearest positive finding is that chronic absenteeism at Fort Jones was lower than both district and state rates in 2025–2026.
There is no separate local top and bottom school to compare: Fort Jones is the only school in the ZIP code list. Its attendance measure compares favorably with both reference groups: 16% of students were chronically absent, versus 22% in Scott Valley Unified and 18% statewide. That puts the school 6 percentage points below its district and 2 points below California. This is a favorable result on attendance, not a measure of academic achievement.
SchoolDigger’s historical percentile for Fort Jones declined across the three reported years, from the 69th percentile in 2020–2021 to the 67th in 2021–2022 and the 63rd in 2022–2023, a 6-point drop from first to last year. The ranking counts also varied, so this trend does not establish a change in test scores. For context, the school had a 16.9 student-teacher ratio and 58% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger’s separate rating for Scott Valley Unified was 253 of 968 districts, at the 74th percentile with 4 stars; those are district measures, not Fort Jones school results. Taken together, the figures show lower absenteeism than the district and state, alongside a declining historical ranking percentile, but do not establish how the school performs academically.
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