Summary:
Running Springs has one listed school, Charles Hoffman Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 297 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 46% in ELA, 37% in math, and 33% in science—slightly below state results by 3, 1, and 3 percentage points, respectively, but above the Rim of the World Unified district by 11, 13, and 3 points. The most important change is that the school went from above state results in all three subjects in 2024–2025 to below state results in all three in 2025–2026.
Because it is the area’s only listed school, Charles Hoffman Elementary is both the top and bottom local performer, but that does not provide a meaningful comparison with other schools. Its grade-level results show a stronger picture in grade 3 and weaker results in grade 5: grade 3 was 4 points above the state in ELA and 10 points above in math, while grade 5 was 7 points below in ELA and 14 points below in math. Grade 4 was 4 points above the state in ELA but 7 points below in math. The school’s math proficiency ranged from 57% in grade 3 to 22% in grade 5, a 34-point difference between those grade groups.
The school’s state-relative results shifted downward across all subjects: from 3 points above the state in ELA, 9 above in math, and 6 above in science in 2024–2025 to 3 below, 1 below, and 3 below in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking rose from the 59th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 65th in 2024–2025, then fell to the 54th in 2025–2026; its rating remained 3 stars each year. As context, the school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 24.7, and 61% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 19%, compared with 18% statewide and 29% in the district.
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