Alta Vista Elementary

The area list contains one school, Alta Vista Elementary, serving 531 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 18% in English language arts (ELA), 9% in math and 10% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. The gaps were 31 percentage points in ELA, 29 in math and 26 in science. The most important finding is that the school was substantially below the state in all three subjects, with the largest shortfall in ELA.

There is no other school in the list to compare with Alta Vista, so it is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this group. Within the school’s grade-level results, eighth grade had the strongest ELA and math scores, at 31% and 23%; fourth-grade ELA was 2%, and fifth-grade math was 0%. Science was strongest in fifth grade at 17%, compared with 5% in eighth. SchoolDigger rates the school at zero stars and ranks it 5,715th out of 5,804 statewide (2nd percentile) in 2025–2026. It ranks the Alta Vista Elementary district 955th out of 968 (1st percentile).

The state gaps widened in all three subjects between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: by 2 percentage points in ELA, 1 in math and 2 in science. Science proficiency at Alta Vista did rise by 2 points, but the gap still widened because the state result rose more. SchoolDigger ranked the school in the 5th percentile in 2023–2024 and the 2nd percentile in each of the next two years. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 15% in 2025–2026, below California’s 18% but above the district’s 8%; the student–teacher ratio was 20.8 in 2024–2025. In that same school year, 91% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible; California is a state where all students receive free meals, but the school’s figure remains its reported free/reduced lunch eligible measure.