Summary:
[Bennett Valley Union Elementary] has two elementary schools: [Yulupa Elementary], listed for kindergarten with 523 students, and [Bennett Valley Charter], serving grades one through six with 365 students. Both schools’ reported 2024–2025 all-grades English and math results were above the state results. One caution: Yulupa’s listed kindergarten grade span does not match its reported all-grades and third-grade test results, so the school-to-school comparison is not fully grade-matched. The clearest headline is that Yulupa had the higher reported result in both subjects, especially math.
In 2024–2025, Yulupa’s reported results were 65% in English language arts and 61% in math, compared with 63% and 48% at Bennett Valley Charter; the reported gaps were 1 and 13 percentage points. Both schools were above the state: Yulupa by 16 points in English and 24 in math, and Bennett Valley Charter by 14 and 10 points. In 2025–2026, Bennett Valley Charter remained above the state in every reported subject—by 12 points in English, 14 in math, and 16 in science. Its strongest grade-level results were in third grade: 74% in English and 68% in math, respectively 30 and 21 points above state results.
Bennett Valley Charter’s results improved in math and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while English dipped: math rose 5 points to 52%, science rose 6 points to 52%, and English fell 2 points to 61%. Its advantage over the state widened in math and science but narrowed in English. SchoolDigger rates the district four stars and ranks it 171st of 968 districts, in the 82nd percentile; Charter’s SchoolDigger percentile moved from 75th to 76th over the same three-year ranking history. As context, in 2024–2025 the student-teacher ratios were 21.7 at Yulupa and 24.3 at Charter, and the free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 32% and 35%. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 19% at Yulupa and 12% at Charter, a 7-point difference.
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