Summary:
Alta, California, has one listed public school, Alta-Dutch Flat Elementary, serving kindergarten through eighth grade with 99 students. With no other local schools for comparison, the clearest picture comes from comparing its results with California’s and looking across subjects. The most important finding is a sharp split in the latest results: Science proficiency is well above the state, while Mathematics is well below it.
Alta-Dutch Flat Elementary is both the top and bottom school in this one-school area, so there is no local school-to-school leader or alternative. In 2025–2026, 57% of students were proficient in Science, compared with 36% statewide, a 21-point advantage; ELA was 51% versus 49%, about 2 points higher. Mathematics was the clearest concern: 17% were proficient, compared with 38% statewide, a 21-point shortfall. Grade-level results also vary: seventh-grade Mathematics was 7% versus 38% statewide, while seventh-grade ELA was 29% versus 51%. Fifth-grade ELA was a stronger result, at 67% versus 49% statewide.
Results improved relative to the state in ELA and Science over the two years supplied, but fell further behind in Mathematics. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s ELA proficiency rose 9 points and its gap to the state improved 9 points; Science rose 32 points, improving its relative position by 29 points. Mathematics fell 19 points, and its gap widened by 20 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 3,097th of 5,804, at the 47th percentile with 2 stars; its percentile fell from 51 to 37, then recovered to 47. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 17.5 in 2024–2025, and 25% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 21.2% in 2025–2026, close to the district’s 21.0% but above the state’s 18.3%. Because the area has only one listed school, these figures cannot show how it compares with other nearby schools.
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