[CIB-173RDABN]

California never had the finest educational system.

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This is of course subjective but as someone who attended grades K to 9 in California in the 1950s I would have to say from my point of view the education system was first rate.

Back then everything from books to paper and pencils were provided, discipline was enforced with the “board of education” and there was no “one size fit all” to discipline.

I was not the greatest of students but I was given a good basis of skills that helped my entire life.

Finest? Don’t know, but certainly good.

[Varda]

How it was ranked I don't know but I had many cousins go through various California school systems. Being an Army brat I compared it over the years (1960s-1970s) to the schools I was in in Virginia and West Virginia.
Virginia had tougher courses for college track education which required advanced math and more science. West Virginia had classical education for everyone (required language, art and mastery of arithmetic or algebra). My cousins had swimming schools and tennis courts but had few requirements for harder classes past the 10th grade much less geometry and calculus.

Despite what looked like deficiencies in K-12, the university system was highly regarded everywhere.