Summary:
The Alview-Dairyland Union Elementary area has two small schools serving kindergarten through grade 8: Alview Elementary serves kindergarten–grade 3, and Dairyland Elementary serves grades 4–8. Both schools are above the state in all-grade English language arts (ELA) and mathematics in 2025–2026, and the area’s biggest overall strength is mathematics: the schools’ unweighted average was 48%, 9 percentage points above the state’s 38%, compared with an ELA average of 54%, 5 points above the state’s 49%.
Alview Elementary leads the two-school group in both all-grade subjects, with 56% in ELA and 51% in mathematics, compared with Dairyland Elementary’s 53% and 44%—gaps of 3 and 7 points. Dairyland nevertheless stands out in several grades: its grade 4 results are 13 points above the state in both ELA and mathematics, and grade 6 ELA is 13 points above. The clearest exception is grade 7 ELA, 7 points below the state. Dairyland’s all-grade science result is 35%, just below the state’s 36%.
Results have improved relative to state averages, especially in mathematics: the schools’ average advantage grew from 6 points in 2024–2025 to 9 points in 2025–2026; in ELA, it grew from 4 to 5 points. SchoolDigger’s Dairyland percentile ranking rose from 64 in 2024–2025 to 67 in 2025–2026, though it remains below 70 in 2023–2024. Attendance and other context differ: chronic absenteeism is 18% at Alview and 6% at Dairyland; both reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, 56% and 58%, respectively. Their 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios are 20.4 and 20.8. These observations do not show that any of these factors caused the score differences. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grade results are descriptive comparisons, not same-grade comparisons.
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