Watsonville Prep District

Watsonville Prep District has one school, Watsonville Prep, an elementary school serving kindergarten through grade 8, with 488 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was 44% in English language arts (ELA), 33% in math, and 17% in science; the state rates were 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism was 17% at the school, compared with 18% statewide. The most important concern is science: proficiency was 19 percentage points below the state rate, a larger gap than in either ELA or math.

There is no meaningful top-to-bottom comparison because the list contains only one school. Within Watsonville Prep, ELA is a relative strength in grades 5, 6, and 8: results were 6, 2, and 6 points above the state rates. Grade 7 is the clearest low point: ELA was 23 points below the state, and math was 24 points below. Math proficiency was below the state in every tested grade, while science was below the state in grades 5 and 8. These grade-level differences show that results vary across grades, even though the overall subject rates are below state figures.

Results moved in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose by 2 points, math increased by less than 1 point, and science fell by 4 points. The science gap with the state widened by 8 points, while the ELA gap narrowed by 2 points. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 50th percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 41st percentile the year before but below its 61st-percentile standing in 2023–2024. The student-teacher ratio was 23.6 in 2024–2025. The school reported 77% eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025; this is contextual information, not an explanation for test results. Because there is only one school in the list, comparisons with local peer schools are not available.