Summary:
The 11 schools in Arcadia Unified include six elementary schools, three middle schools, one high school and one alternative school, serving students from elementary through high school in Arcadia. In 2025–2026, the average All Grades results across the ten non-alternative schools were 71% in ELA, 69% in math and 61% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38% and 36%. The clearest overall finding is that these schools averaged well above state results, with their largest advantage in math: 31 percentage points.
Highland Oaks led elementary schools in all three subjects, scoring 76% in ELA, 76% in math and 72% in science; its science result was 11 points above the average of the other elementary schools. Foothills led middle schools with 74% in ELA, 73% in math and 66% in science, including a 11-point science advantage over the other two middle schools’ average. At the lower end, Hugo Reid had the lowest elementary ELA and math results, at 66% and 62%, while Holly Avenue had the lowest elementary science result, 53%. Rancho Learning Center had much lower results—32% ELA, 23% math and 20% science—and was below state results in each subject. Arcadia High, the only traditional high school listed, scored 70% in ELA, 59% in math and 55% in science.
Average scores across the ten non-alternative schools slipped by about 1 percentage point in each subject from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, even as state results rose; the average school–state gaps narrowed by 2 points in ELA, 2 in math and 4 in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings also declined for several schools: Camino Grove went from 97 to 92, Holly Avenue from 93 to 88, and First Avenue from 94 to 90. As context, Highland Oaks reported 19% free/reduced lunch eligible, Holly Avenue 50% and Hugo Reid 35% (school year 2024–2025); elementary student–teacher ratios ranged from 23.3 to 26.7. All Grades results span different grade levels, and Rancho’s enrollment is just 64, so comparisons across school types—and its results in particular—call for caution.
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