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Arcata Elementary

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At a glance

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Elementary 1 Middle 1Grades K-12

1435 Buttermilk Ln.
Arcata, CA 95521-6909·(707) 822-0351·All California district rankings →

Statewide performance 2010–2018

2018: better than 78.9% of districts

Schools

472

Students

Top rankedSunny Brae Middle979^th of 2,740 California middle schools

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Biggest riser

Sunny Brae Middle up 198 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

The two schools in Arcata Elementary serve kindergarten through grade 8: Arcata Elementary serves kindergarten through grade 5, and Sunny Brae Middle serves grades 6–8. The clearest concern is that Arcata Elementary is below the state in every reported grade-and-subject comparison: for example, fourth-grade math proficiency is 3%, compared with 42% statewide, a gap of 40 percentage points.

Sunny Brae Middle stands out with higher 2025–2026 all-grades results in all three subjects: ELA is 51% versus 23% at Arcata Elementary, math is 35% versus 15%, and science is 46% versus 21%—gaps of 28, 20 and 26 points, respectively. These all-grades comparisons describe schools serving different grades, so they are not like-for-like comparisons. At the grade level, Sunny Brae Middle is above state results in sixth-grade ELA and math, eighth-grade ELA, and eighth-grade science, but below state in seventh-grade ELA and seventh- and eighth-grade math. SchoolDigger ranks it at the 64th percentile with three stars, compared with the 11th percentile and one star for Arcata Elementary.

The latest all-grades results moved in opposite directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Arcata Elementary fell 9 points in ELA, 10 in math and 14 in science, while Sunny Brae Middle rose 5, 3 and 14 points, respectively. Their three-year SchoolDigger rankings reflect that divergence: Arcata fell 26 percentile points, while Sunny Brae rose 11. The schools’ student-teacher ratios are 16.0 and 17.3, respectively; in 2024–2025, 79% of Arcata students and 54% of Sunny Brae students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Chronic absenteeism was high at both in 2025–2026: 28% at Arcata and 27% at Sunny Brae, versus 18% statewide.

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Ranking:

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				CAST Science (2026)			Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy (2026)							Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics (2026)							Vaccination (2024-25)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	CAST Science 5th Grade	CAST Science 8th Grade	CAST Science All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts/Literacy All Grades	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 3rd Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 4th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 5th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 6th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 7th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics 8th Grade	Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics All Grades	Vaccination: Kindergartners with all required immunizations	Vaccination: Exemption rate	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Sunny Brae Middle	Public	6-8	1430 Buttermilk Ln.	Arcata	95521	Humboldt County	Arcata Elementary	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(707) 822-5988	232	13	17.3	54.3%	127 (54.7%)	2 (0.9%)	55 (23.7%)	6 (2.6%)	4 (1.7%)	0 (0.0%)	35 (15.1%)	57.9	979^th of 2740 public middle schools	64.3%		50	1177^th of 2761 public middle schools	57.4%	198		46.5	46.5				57.1	43.3	53.5	51.2				40.6	32.8	32.4	35.2			$24,177	$22,072	$2,105
Arcata Elementary	Public	K-5	2400 Baldwin St.	Arcata	95521	Humboldt County	Arcata Elementary	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(707) 822-4858	240	15	16.0	78.8%	110 (45.8%)	9 (3.8%)	57 (23.8%)	9 (3.8%)	13 (5.4%)	0 (0.0%)	41 (17.1%)	15.7	5165^th of 5817 public elementary schools	11.2%		32.9	3738^th of 5857 public elementary schools	36.2%	1427	20.7		20.7	29.0	20.5	20.7				23.2	32.3	2.6	13.8				15.2	89%	0%	$30,354	$28,544	$1,810

Districts nearby

District	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Union Street Charter District	0.61 mi	1	88^th
Jacoby Creek Elementary	0.7 mi	1	114^th
Northern Humboldt Union High	1.74 mi	7	641^st
Six Rivers Charter High District	1.81 mi	1
Humboldt County Office of Education	1.85 mi	6	1497^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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