Summary:
The Garvey/Allen Visual & Perf Arts Academy for STEM District has one K–8 elementary school, Garvey/Allen Visual & Performing Arts Academy for STEM, serving 210 students. In 2025–26, the school’s proficiency rates were below California’s in all three tested subjects, with the largest shortfall in math.
There is no local top or bottom school to compare because this is the only school in the list. Its 2025–26 results were 37% proficient in ELA, 15% in math and 17% in science, compared with statewide rates of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively; the school was 12 points behind in ELA, 23 in math and 19 in science. ELA was its strongest subject relative to the state, while math was weakest. Results also varied by grade: ELA proficiency ranged from 32% in grade 6 to 42% in grade 7, and math ranged from 9% in grade 7 to 29% in grade 3; even these highest grade-level results were below California’s results for the same grades.
Results declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in every subject: the school fell 6 points in ELA, 6 in math and 12 in science, while statewide rates increased in all three. SchoolDigger ranked the school 4,554th of 5,804 statewide, in the 22nd percentile, and gave it one star for 2025–26. Chronic absenteeism was 27%, compared with 18% statewide. As context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 22.6 in 2024–25, and 93% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these measures describe the school and do not establish what explains its results.
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