Summary
O C Johnson School is a 352-student PK–5 elementary school in Yuma, in the Yuma Elementary District. Its achievement differs notably by grade: in 2025–26, third graders scored 49% proficient in ELA and 43% in math, while fourth-grade ELA proficiency was 25%. Third-grade ELA was 10 percentage points above the state and higher than every nearby school with a reported score; fourth-grade ELA was 22 points below the state, and all six nearby schools with reported scores did better. The clearest takeaway is this sharp divide between strong third-grade results and weak fourth-grade ELA.
Overall, ELA is the school’s strongest subject against nearby schools and its district, while science is its clearest shortfall against the state and district. All-grades ELA proficiency was 38%, compared with 32% in the district and 41% statewide; among nine nearby schools with reported scores, the average was 30%, and O C Johnson tied with two schools and trailed one. Math was 24%, above the district’s 20% but below the state’s 33%; the nearby-school average was 21%, placing O C Johnson around the middle. In fifth-grade science, the school scored 23%, versus 29% in the district and 34% statewide, and below the three nearby schools with reported results, which scored 24%–30%. Nearby schools serve different grade spans, and some scores are suppressed and unavailable.
SchoolDigger rates the school at the 49th percentile and 2 stars for 2025–26, up 21 percentile points from 2021–22, though it reached 57 in 2023–24 before dropping to 45 and then rising to 49. Its current percentile is higher than the four nearby schools with ratings for that year, which scored 18, 40, 37, and 26; the district is at the 22nd percentile and 1 star. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 measure of how well the school serves students with low socioeconomic status was at the 78th percentile, compared with 49 overall; its measure for Hispanic students was at the 66th percentile. The student–teacher ratio is 16.7, near the nearby-school average of 16.1, and the reported free/reduced-lunch rate was 83% in 2022–23.
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