Pike Valley

Pike Valley has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Pike Valley Elementary (PK–6), Pike Valley Junior High (grades 7–8), and Pike Valley High (grades 9–12). The clearest overall finding is that results differ sharply by school, especially in ELA: Junior High leads, while High has a pronounced weakness.

Pike Valley Junior High is the strongest all-around performer in 2025–26, with 70% proficient in ELA, 61% in math, and 69% in science—24, 20, and 31 percentage points above state results, respectively. Pike Valley Elementary also exceeded the state in all three subjects, with 61% ELA, 60% math, and 67% science; its grade 5 math result was especially strong at 87%, compared with 45% statewide. Pike Valley High is the main concern: its 19% ELA proficiency was 27 points below the state and 42 points below Elementary, while its 40% math result was close to the state’s 41%. In grade 10 ELA, High was also below the same-grade state result, at 19% versus 41%.

Recent trends reinforce this contrast: Elementary and Junior High improved in every subject with results in both years, while High’s ELA fell 21 points and its math was essentially unchanged. Junior High’s SchoolDigger statewide ranking rose from the 81st percentile in 2023–24 to the 96th in 2025–26; Elementary’s reached the 81st percentile, while High’s latest ranking was the 37th percentile after a higher 63rd-percentile ranking the year before. Other measures do not point to a simple explanation: High has the lowest student-teacher ratio, 6.2, yet the weakest ELA, and its free/reduced-lunch rate is 39%, compared with 44% at Elementary and 37% at Junior High. Because the schools serve different grade spans, all-grades results are descriptive rather than direct comparisons of identical grades.