Summary:
The Ridgecrest Elementary Academy for Language Music and Sci Di area has one school, Ridgecrest Elementary Academy for Language Music and Sci, an elementary school serving kindergarten through grade 6 with 239 students. In 2025–26, the school was below California’s proficiency rate in all three reported subjects: 28% in English language arts (ELA) versus 49% statewide, 21% in math versus 38%, and 9% in science versus 36%. The most important finding is that Ridgecrest has broad proficiency gaps, largest in science at 27 percentage points.
There is no within-area top or bottom school because Ridgecrest is the only school listed. SchoolDigger ranked it 4,921st of 5,804 California schools in 2025–26, at the 15th percentile; it ranked 5,106th of 5,857 schools, at the 13th percentile, in 2024–25, and 4,248th of 5,869, at the 28th percentile, in 2023–24. Attendance is a brighter result: chronic absenteeism was 7% in 2025–26, compared with 18% statewide, or 11 percentage points lower.
Results moved in different directions: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA proficiency rose 9 percentage points, while math fell 2 points and science fell 10. Ridgecrest narrowed its ELA gap with California by 9 points, but the math gap widened 3 points and the science gap widened 14. Grade-level math results were especially far below state rates in grades 5 and 6: the gaps were 28 and 30 points, compared with 15 in grade 3 and 20 in grade 4. For context, Ridgecrest reported a 19.1 student–teacher ratio and 52% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, as well as spending of $24,365 per student that year; these figures describe the school but do not explain its test results. Since the area has only one school, there is no peer-school comparison.
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