Best Public Schools in Ivanhoe, CA

Ivanhoe, California, has one listed school, Ivanhoe Elementary, serving grades K–6 and enrolling 473 students. With no other local schools to compare, its results are best understood against Visalia Unified and California. In 2025–2026, the school was below the state in all three all-grade subjects, with the largest shortfall in science: 16% proficient, 20 percentage points below the state.

There is no meaningful local “top” or “bottom” school distinction because Ivanhoe Elementary is the only school on the list. Its strongest grade-level result was fourth-grade ELA: 56% proficient, 10 points above the state and 11 points above the district. Fifth grade was a relative concern: ELA proficiency was 37%, 13 points below the state, and math was 25%, 11 points below. Across all grades, math was the school’s closest subject to the state benchmark at 36% proficient, 3 points below; it was 5 points above the district. ELA was 42%, 7 points below the state, while science was 16%, 20 points below.

Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and the gaps with the state narrowed: ELA rose 6 percentage points, math 3 points, and science 12 points, with science making the largest gain but still the largest shortfall. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved upward, from the 29th percentile and 1 star in 2023–2024 to the 45th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026. Other context includes a 21.5 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 88% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 21% in 2025–2026, compared with 19% in the district and 18% statewide.