Shade Canyon District

Shade Canyon District has one listed school, Shade Canyon, an elementary school serving kindergarten through grade 8 with 64 students. The clearest finding is that the school’s reported all-grades results are below California’s in both English language arts and math.

Because it is the only school listed, Shade Canyon is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school in the group; that is not a meaningful comparison with other schools. In 2025–2026, 13% of students met the ELA standard, compared with 49% statewide, a gap of 36 percentage points. In math, 17% met the standard, versus 38% statewide, a 21-point gap. Results also differ by grade: grade 3 was 18% in ELA and 36% in math, while grade 4 was 8% in ELA and 0% in math. The school trailed state results in all four grade-and-subject comparisons, with gaps ranging from 11 to 42 points.

There are no earlier comparable results here to show whether achievement or attendance is improving or declining. SchoolDigger ranks Shade Canyon 5,459th of 5,804 schools statewide, at the 6th percentile, with 0 stars; its supplied district ranking is 958th of 968, also with 0 stars. Chronic absenteeism is another notable concern: 36% of students were chronically absent, compared with 18% statewide, a difference of 18 points. For context, the student–teacher ratio was 16 in 2024–2025, and 42% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year; the state reports that all students receive free school meals, so the income measure should not be treated as a comparable measure of meal access. With only one school and no earlier results, these figures cannot show how school characteristics relate to outcomes or how results are changing.