Summary:
Sun City, California, has one listed school, Ridgemoor Elementary, serving kindergarten through fifth grade, with 772 students; it is part of the Menifee Union district. Because there is only one school in the list, families cannot compare schools within Sun City. The most important finding is that in 2025–26, Ridgemoor’s math and science proficiency exceeded state results, while its ELA proficiency fell short.
Ridgemoor Elementary is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this list by default, so the useful comparisons are with district and state results. Its all-grades math proficiency was 46%, 8 percentage points above the state’s 38%; science was 45%, 9 points above the state’s 36%. ELA was 44%, 5 points below the state’s 49%. Strengths vary by grade: fourth-grade math was 9 points above the state, and fifth-grade science was 10 points above. ELA was uneven: fourth grade was 3 points above the state, while third and fifth grades were 5 and 4 points below, respectively. Attendance is another positive measure: chronic absenteeism was 6%, compared with 10% districtwide and 18% statewide in 2025–26.
Across the two reported test years, math and science moved further ahead of the state, while ELA slipped further behind. Ridgemoor’s math proficiency rose from 41% in 2024–25 to 46% in 2025–26, and its state lead widened from 3 to 8 percentage points; science rose from 40% to 45%, with its lead growing from 8 to 9 points. ELA remained about 44%, while its gap to the state widened from 4 to 5 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rose from 48 to 62 between 2023–24 and 2025–26, and its rating increased from 2 stars to 3. For context, the school reported a 23.3 student-teacher ratio and 69% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; these figures describe the school, but do not explain its results.
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