Summary:
Zip code 96065 has one elementary school, Montgomery Creek Elementary, a K–8 school with 68 students in the rural Mountain Union Elementary School District. Because it is the only school in the area, there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. The most important finding is that its 2025–2026 results were below California’s in all-grades ELA, math, and science, with the largest gap in ELA: 30% proficient at the school compared with 49% statewide, a 20-point difference.
There is no separate top- or bottom-performing school in this ZIP code, but math was the school’s strongest all-grades result relative to the state: 35% proficient versus 38%, a 3-point gap. Science was 24% versus 36%, a 12-point gap. ELA was the clearest weakness. Grade-level results show an exception in eighth-grade science, where 36% were proficient compared with 35% statewide, about a 1-point advantage; eighth-grade ELA was 27% versus 49%, while eighth-grade math was 27% versus 36%. Chronic absenteeism is also notably high: 42% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide and 38% in the district.
Recent results improved in math and science but not ELA: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math proficiency rose 12 points and science rose 24 points, narrowing their state gaps by 11 and 20 points, respectively; ELA fell 4 points, and its gap widened by 4 points. SchoolDigger’s reported ranking history also shows a lower relative standing in the latest listed year: 79th percentile in 2007–2008, 60th in 2021–2022, and 48th in 2023–2024; its star rating went from four to two over those listed years. The school’s 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 11.2, and 75% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures provide context, not peer comparisons. With only 68 students and no comparable schools supplied, the data cannot establish how these context measures relate to results.
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