Summary:
Walnut Grove, California, has one listed school, Walnut Grove Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 6 with 131 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade ELA and math proficiency rates were 42% and 23%, respectively—below California’s 49% and 38%, but above River Delta Joint Unified’s 38% and 21%. The clearest concern is science: 7% were proficient, 29 percentage points below the state and 18 below the district.
Within the school, fourth grade stands out as the strongest result: 77% were proficient in ELA and 54% in math, exceeding state rates by 31 and 11 points. Fifth grade was the weakest in the reported results, with 20% proficient in ELA and 7% in math—29 and 30 points below state rates. Sixth-grade results were also below the state: 32% in ELA and 10% in math. Fifth-grade science was 7%, 29 points below the state. These grade-level differences show that the school’s all-grade results mask a strong fourth-grade showing and substantially weaker results in later grades.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose by 9 points, narrowing its gap below the state from 16 points to 8, while math fell by 2 points and science by 4; their state gaps widened from 12 to 15 points in math and from 22 to 29 in science. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from the 13th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 33rd percentile in 2025–2026, when it ranked 3,882 of 5,804 schools and received 2 stars. As context, the 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 16.3, and 93% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 20% and the state’s 18%.
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