Summary:
ZIP code 96094 has three schools: Weed Elementary and Butteville Elementary, both serving kindergarten through grade 8, and Weed High, serving grades 9–12. The latest proficiency results are from 2025–26, and the clearest comparison is between the two K–8 schools, which serve the same grade span. Their results differ substantially: Butteville leads Weed Elementary in every tested subject, making the gap between the two local K–8 schools the most important finding for families.
Butteville Elementary is the standout K–8 school, with 57% proficiency in ELA, 41% in math and 33% in science, compared with 22%, 16% and 14% at Weed Elementary. That’s a lead of 35 percentage points in ELA, 25 in math and 19 in science. Butteville is above California’s all-grades results in ELA and math, while Weed Elementary is below the state in all three subjects. Weed High has a different profile: its 60% ELA proficiency is 3 points above the state’s 11th-grade result, but its math and science scores are 20 and 21 points below the state’s 11th-grade results.
Recent scores show both improvement and setbacks: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Weed High’s ELA rose 20 percentage points, while Butteville’s science fell 13 points and Weed Elementary’s math fell 5. SchoolDigger ranks Butteville at the 63rd statewide percentile, Weed High at the 39th and Weed Elementary at the 5th; all three rankings are below their 2023–24 levels. The 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 43% at Butteville, 60% at Weed High and 79% at Weed Elementary; student–teacher ratios were similar at the K–8 schools, at 17.4 and 17.6, and 14.5 at Weed High. Chronic absenteeism was above the state’s 18% at all three schools, highest at Weed High (35%) and Weed Elementary (32%). These measures offer context, but they do not explain school results.
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