Summary:
Lakeside, California, has 12 schools—eight elementary, two middle and two high schools—with 6,631 students enrolled, serving children from elementary through high school. Nine schools report 2025–2026 test results, two have 2024–2025 results, and Winter Gardens Elementary has no test-score results in the supplied data. The clearest overall finding is how much results differ from one school to another: the 2025–2026 spread between highest and lowest results was 40 points in ELA, 43 in math and 35 in science.
Riverview Elementary stands out at the top, leading the nine current-year schools in all three subjects with 67% ELA, 59% math and 52% science—18, 21 and 16 points above the state results, respectively. At the other end, Lindo Park Elementary had the lowest ELA and math results, at 27% and 17%, 23 and 22 points below the state. Lemon Crest Elementary had the lowest science result, 17%, or 19 points below the state; its chronic absenteeism was also highest among schools with current attendance data, at 31%, versus 18% statewide. A notable older result is River Valley Charter’s 2024–2025 performance: 76% ELA, 66% math and 65% science.
Across the same nine schools, average math results rose 2 points and science rose 3 points between the two years, while ELA was essentially flat. DREAM Academy improved notably—up 7 points in ELA, 16 in math and 5 in science—while Lindo Park Elementary’s math result fell 5 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for DREAM fell from 88 to 57 despite its recent score gains, illustrating that rankings and test-score changes can tell different stories. As context, all listed schools report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025: 25% at Riverview, 73% at Lindo Park and 39% at DREAM; these figures are observations, not explanations for results. Score years differ among schools, so River Valley’s older results should not be treated as a same-year comparison with current results.
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