Summary:
Grand Terrace, California, has four schools in this data set: two elementary schools serving grades 3–6, one middle school serving grades 7–8, and one high school serving grades 9–12. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average all-grades proficiency was 43% in ELA, 24% in math and 22% in science, compared with statewide rates of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important shared concern is that all four schools’ all-grades math and science results are below state levels, with average gaps of 14 percentage points in each subject.
Grand Terrace High School at the Ray Abril Junior Edal Complex stands out for ELA: 65% proficient, 16 points above the state rate; its math result is 21%, 17 points below the state, and its science result is 29%, 7 points below. Its reported 97% graduation rate is 9 points above the state. At the other end, Terrace Hills Middle has the lowest all-grades results—30% in ELA, 17% in math and 16% in science—each about 20 points below the corresponding state rate. Among the elementary schools, Terrace View Elementary leads in all-grades ELA and math and is ahead of Grand Terrace Elementary in both subjects at every shared grade. Grand Terrace Elementary is slightly ahead in fifth-grade science, by 2 points.
Results improved in all three subjects at three schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Terrace View’s ELA, math and science rates fell by 3, 3 and 5 points. Across the four schools, the average gap to the state narrowed by 2 points in ELA, barely changed in math, and widened by 2 points in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 18 to 26 for Grand Terrace Elementary over three years, while Terrace View’s fell from 54 to 46. For context, both elementary schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025: 80% at Grand Terrace Elementary and 59% at Terrace View; their student-teacher ratios are 22.3 and 24.6, respectively. These figures describe the schools but do not explain their results.
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