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O C Johnson School

Public Grades PK, KG-5
459th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 900 Arizona Elementary Schools
Better than 49% of Arizona elementary schools
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.

352
Students ?
16.7
Student/teacher ratio ?
$11,026
Per pupil spending ?
72.4%
Directly certified for free meals (2024-25) ?
 1201 W 12th St
       Yuma, AZ  85364-3605

(928) 502-7900

District: Yuma Elementary District


Students who attend O C Johnson School usually attend:

Middle:    R Pete Woodard Junior High School
High:    Yuma High School
Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
89.8%
White:
7.4%
African American:
1.1%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Improving — 38th percentile in 2016 → 49th in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is trending up — up 11 percentile points since 2016
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Arizona average (31% vs 37% meeting standards)
!Some student groups rank well below the school's overall statewide standing
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school31%
District avg26%
Arizona avg37%
459th of 900
Arizona public elementary schools ?
Bottom 49%▲ up 11 pts since 2016
From bottom 38% (2016) to bottom 49% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
3rd of 9Elementary Schools in the Yuma Elementary District
209th of 267Yuma Elementary District among Arizona districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202641.3459 of 90049.0%★★☆☆☆
202535.7503 of 90944.7%★★☆☆☆
202452.1392 of 91257.0%★★★☆☆
202338.1704 of 124543.5%★★☆☆☆
202222.4724 of 100027.6%★☆☆☆☆
202134.0734 of 122640.1%★★☆☆☆
201942.9541 of 103947.9%★★☆☆☆
201845.3540 of 110951.3%★★★☆☆
201742.2586 of 110647.0%★★☆☆☆
201634.7668 of 107938.1%★★☆☆☆
201538.3519 of 95545.7%★★☆☆☆
201432.0760 of 107929.6%★☆☆☆☆
201338.4763 of 115834.1%★★☆☆☆
201246.7636 of 114144.3%★★☆☆☆
201142.7616 of 107542.7%★★☆☆☆
201035.5734 of 109032.7%★★☆☆☆
200948.9556 of 106247.6%★★☆☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202122.4818 of 8958.6%☆☆☆☆☆

English Language Learner

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202151.2179 of 97581.6%★★★★☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202338.5680 of 121944.2%★★☆☆☆
202132.0777 of 121936.3%★★☆☆☆
201939.0494 of 86242.7%★★☆☆☆
201849.0479 of 102353.2%★★★☆☆

Foster Care

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202150.283 of 30672.9%★★★★☆

Hispanic

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202661.5172 of 50065.6%★★★☆☆
202538.8275 of 49644.6%★★☆☆☆
202454.5198 of 48659.3%★★★☆☆
202345.6573 of 117051.0%★★★☆☆
202234.4469 of 71634.5%★★☆☆☆
202142.9601 of 119849.8%★★☆☆☆
201947.1348 of 70950.9%★★★☆☆
201856.3341 of 91162.6%★★★☆☆

Homeless

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202144.7173 of 42359.1%★★★☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202670.7118 of 52977.7%★★★★☆
202568.6140 of 54974.5%★★★★☆
202347.4528 of 111652.7%★★★☆☆
202231.4451 of 61827.0%★☆☆☆☆
201861.1266 of 82067.6%★★★☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202536.1379 of 62639.5%★★☆☆☆
202451.5283 of 62854.9%★★★☆☆
202336.9709 of 121641.7%★★☆☆☆
202137.4696 of 122043.0%★★☆☆☆
201933.5520 of 85038.8%★★☆☆☆
201844.8533 of 103248.4%★★☆☆☆

Migrant

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202374.47 of 3781.1%★★★★☆
202130.345 of 6025.0%★☆☆☆☆

Multi-racial

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202134.8692 of 102732.6%★★☆☆☆

Native American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202128.3545 of 65416.7%★☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202348.7349 of 82057.4%★★★☆☆
202122.81150 of 12014.2%☆☆☆☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankArizona percentileRating
202327.1790 of 102422.9%★☆☆☆☆
20226.8776 of 8003.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202131.8835 of 116128.1%★☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
English Language Learner (2021)82nd percentile+42 vs school
Migrant (2023)81st percentile+38 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)78th percentile+29 vs school
Foster Care (2021)73rd percentile+33 vs school
Hispanic (2026)66th percentile+17 vs school
Homeless (2021)59th percentile+19 vs school
Special Education (2023)57th percentile+14 vs school
Female (2023)44th percentile~ school
Male (2025)39th percentile-5 vs school
Multi-racial (2021)33rd percentile-8 vs school
White (2023)23rd percentile-21 vs school
Native American (2021)17th percentile-23 vs school
African American (2021)9th percentile-32 vs school
By subject vs Arizona (2025-2026) ?
English Language Arts38%-3 vs state
Mathematics24%-9 vs state

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by a citizen
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Open Quote This school is awful. They do not take bullying seriously, and will actually tell you your child is lying about being bullied. I had to take my child out of this school and homeschool it got so bad. The teacher herself was a bully. Close Quote





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Students who attend O C Johnson School usually go on to attend:

Middle : R Pete Woodard Junior High School
High : Yuma High School

O C Johnson School ranks 459th of 900 Arizona elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 2 stars out of 5.

Students at O C Johnson School are 90% Hispanic, 7% White, 1% African American.

In the 2024-25 school year, 352 students attended O C Johnson School.

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2025–26 AASA test scoresNewOct 13, 2026
2024–25 dropout ratesDec 2, 2025
2024–25 graduation ratesNov 7, 2025
2024–25 AASA & AzSCI test scoresOct 10, 2025


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Arizona Department of Education.

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