Summary:
Farmington, California, has one listed school, Farmington Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5, with 95 students; it is part of Escalon Unified. In 2025–26, all-grade proficiency at the school was 36% in English language arts (ELA), 36% in math and 17% in science. ELA and science were below state results of 49% and 36%, respectively, while math was close to the state’s 38%. Chronic absenteeism was 4%, compared with 11% in the district and 18% statewide. The most important academic concern is science: the school was 19 percentage points below the state and 14 points below the district.
There are no other listed schools to compare, so the clearest differences are among grades at Farmington Elementary. Grade 3 stands out: 57% were proficient in ELA, 13 points above the state, and 71% in math, 24 points above. Grade 4 ELA is the clearest weakness, at 17% proficient versus 46% statewide, a 29-point gap. Grade 4 math and grade 5 ELA and math were also below state results. Grade 5 science was 17%, 19 points below the state. These grade-level contrasts show that the strong grade 3 results do not continue consistently in grades 4 and 5.
Recent results are mixed rather than steadily improving. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA proficiency rose from 33% to 36%, while math declined from 40% to 36% and science fell from 31% to 17%. The state gap narrowed by 3 points in ELA but worsened by 4 points in math and 17 points in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 17th percentile in 2023–24, 44th in 2024–25 and 39th in 2025–26—up 22 percentile points overall, but down 5 in the latest year. The 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 15.8, and 75% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch that school year. These figures provide context, not an explanation for achievement results.
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