Summary:
Zip code 96041 has two schools serving 341 students: Hayfork Elementary for kindergarten through grade 8 and Hayfork High for grades 9–12. The most important concern is that proficiency dropped at both schools in all three tested subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, sharply shrinking the schools’ earlier average advantage over the state.
Hayfork High led the latest all-grade ELA and math results: 62% in ELA and 48% in math, compared with 46% and 39% at Hayfork Elementary. The elementary school led in science, at 46% versus 38%. Both schools’ equal-school average remained above state results in all three subjects, by about 5 points in ELA, 5 in math and 6 in science. Grade-level results reveal important exceptions: elementary grade 4 math was 10%, 32 points below the state, while grades 7 and 8 were 14 and 21 points above. The high school’s other reported outcomes were strong: graduation was 100% versus 88% statewide, dropout was 0% versus 8%, and chronic absenteeism was 4% versus 18%.
The declines were especially steep at Hayfork High: 23 points in ELA, 22 in math and 17 in science; Hayfork Elementary fell 5, 9 and 9 points, respectively. SchoolDigger rankings also shifted: the elementary school moved from the 75th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 50th in 2025–2026, while the high school went from the 96th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 74th in 2025–2026. For context, student–teacher ratios were 24.5 at the elementary school and 15.8 at the high school; both reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, at 74% and 78%, respectively. The schools serve different grade spans, and the high school enrolls 96 students, so these comparisons are not a like-for-like explanation of results.
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