Summary:
The Howard Gardner Community Charter District has one school, Howard Gardner Community Charter, serving kindergarten through eighth grade, with 178 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s proficiency rates were below California’s in all three reported subjects: 25% in English language arts (ELA) versus 49% statewide, 16% in math versus 38%, and 10% in science versus 36%. The gaps were 24, 22, and 26 percentage points, respectively. The most important finding is that results were substantially below state rates across all three subjects.
There is no other school in the district to compare, but results differed across grades. Sixth-grade ELA was the strongest grade-level result relative to its state benchmark: 38% proficient, 10 points below California. Eighth-grade math was the weakest: 0% proficient, 36 points below the state. Third-grade ELA was also notably low at 6% compared with 44% statewide, a 38-point gap. Across all grades, math was closest to its state benchmark, while science was furthest below it; ELA had the school’s highest overall proficiency rate.
Over the two years reported, the school’s results were mixed: ELA fell 2 points, from 27% to 25%; math rose 3 points, from 13% to 16%; and science fell 2 points, from 13% to 10%. The average gap from California widened by 2 points, from 22 to 24. SchoolDigger ranks the school at 5,041 of 5,804, in the 13th percentile with one star; its percentile ranking rose from 1 in 2023–2024 to 18 in 2024–2025 before slipping to 13. Other context includes chronic absenteeism of 45% versus 18% statewide in 2025–2026, a 19.7 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025, and 73% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. With only one school listed, these figures cannot show how it compares with local peers.
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