Summary:
The middle-school list for Penn Valley Union Elementary contains one school, Ready Springs Elementary, which serves grades 4–8 and has 255 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was 44% in English language arts (ELA), 25% in mathematics, and 32% in science. Those results were below state levels of 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively, and also slightly below district results of 45%, 27%, and 35%. The most important concern is mathematics: Ready Springs was 13 percentage points below the state.
There is no second school in this list to compare with Ready Springs, but grade-level results show clear strengths and weaknesses within the school. Fifth grade was above state results in all three subjects: by 9 points in ELA, 12 in mathematics, and 12 in science. In contrast, seventh-grade ELA and mathematics were 18 and 21 points below the state, while eighth-grade results were 19 points below in ELA and 22 below in mathematics. This means the schoolwide figures hide a notably strong fifth-grade performance alongside much lower seventh- and eighth-grade ELA and mathematics results.
All-grade results declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 5 points, mathematics 13, and science 11, while state results were essentially flat in ELA and rose 1 point in mathematics and 3 in science. SchoolDigger’s ranking also fell, from 990 of 2,761 schools (64th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025 to 1,856 of 2,703 (31st percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 18.6 in 2024–2025 and 57% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these describe the school but do not explain its results. The list includes only one school and two years of all-grade test results, so it cannot show how Ready Springs compares with other local schools over time.
Thank you for your feedback!