Summary:
The middle-school list for El Tejon Unified contains one school, El Tejon Elementary, which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 221 students. In 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 3% at the school, compared with 6% in the district and 18% statewide. The main academic concern is that all-grades proficiency was below California’s results in every subject, with the widest gaps in math and ELA: 27% versus 38% in math and 39% versus 49% in ELA, or about 11 points below the state in each.
There are no local peer schools to identify as top or bottom performers; El Tejon Elementary is the only school in the list. Its grade-level results show a few bright spots amid broader gaps: seventh-grade math was 40%, about 2 points above California’s 38%, and fifth-grade science was 37%, about 1 point above the state’s 35%. The sharpest shortfall was fifth-grade math, at 14% compared with 37% statewide—a gap of 22 points. ELA was below the state in every grade, with the largest gap in eighth grade: 35% versus 49%, or 14 points behind.
Recent results are mixed rather than improving consistently: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, math rose 5 points at the school versus 1 point statewide, bringing its state gap 3 points closer; ELA fell 2 points while the state rose by less than 1, widening the gap by 2 points. Science rose 3.2 points at the school and 3.3 statewide, leaving its gap virtually unchanged. SchoolDigger ranked the school 1,525th of 2,703 schools in 2025–26, in the 44th percentile, with 2 stars. Context measures include a student-teacher ratio of 19.9 in 2024–25 and 84% eligible for free/reduced lunch that year.
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