Summary:
The El Rio Community District has one listed school, El Rio Community, an elementary school serving grades K–8 with 316 students. The clearest concern in its latest results is mathematics: 34% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, 4 points below California, with especially large gaps in 7th grade (16 points below the state) and 3rd grade (15 points below).
Because El Rio Community is the only school listed, it is both the top and bottom school in this data set, so there is no school-to-school comparison. Compared with California, its strongest all-grades result was science: 50% proficient versus 36% statewide, a 14-point advantage; ELA was also higher, at 58% versus 49%, a 9-point lead. Grade results show why those averages do not tell the whole story: 4th-grade ELA was 26 points above the state, 5th-grade ELA 22 points above, and 5th-grade science 21 points above. In contrast, mathematics was below the state in four of five grades with results, though 5th grade was 5 points above.
Compared with 2024–2025, mathematics fell 7 points at El Rio Community, while California rose 1 point, shifting the school from 4 points above the state to 4 points below. ELA was essentially unchanged and remained above the state, while science fell 2 points; the school’s science lead narrowed by 5 points as the state improved. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 58 in 2023–2024 to 69 in 2024–2025, then eased to 66 in 2025–2026; it lists the district at rank 381 of 968, in the 61st percentile, with 3 stars. Chronic absenteeism was 21%, compared with 18% statewide. For context, the student–teacher ratio was 16.9 in 2024–2025, and 24% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. With only one school listed, the data cannot show how schools compare within the district.
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