Summary:
The Barack Obama Charter District has one elementary school, Barack Obama Charter, serving kindergarten through fifth grade and enrolling 360 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 21% in ELA, 12% in math and 14% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The most important finding is that results were below state levels in all three subjects, by 29 points in ELA, 27 in math and 22 in science.
There are no school-to-school standouts in a one-school district, so the school is both the highest and lowest performer by default. Its strongest subject relative to the state was science, with the smallest gap at 22 points; ELA had the largest all-grades gap at 29 points. The clearest grade-level concern was third-grade math: 9% of students were proficient, compared with 47% statewide, a 38-point gap—the largest reported grade-level gap. In ELA, school results rose from 9% in third grade to 23% in fourth and 30% in fifth, while the school-state gaps narrowed from 35 points to 23 and 19 points.
Results changed unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA improved by 5 points and its gap with the state narrowed by 5 points, while math fell by 3 points and its gap widened by 4; science rose by 2 points, but its gap widened by 1. SchoolDigger’s school ranking improved from the 2nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 6th percentile in 2025–2026; separately, its district ranking was 959 of 968, with 0 stars. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 20.5 in 2024–2025 and 97% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch that school year. California is marked as a state where all students receive free school meals; that is separate from the school’s reported eligibility measure. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 48% at the school versus 18% statewide.
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