Bonny Doon Union Elementary

The Bonny Doon Union Elementary area has one school, Bonny Doon Elementary, serving kindergarten through sixth grade, with 92 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades proficiency was 53% in English language arts, 48% in math and 60% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. Its clearest overall strength was science, where it was 24 percentage points above California.

There is no school-to-school leader or laggard in this area, so the most useful contrasts are between grades. Fifth-grade math was a notable weakness: 27% of students were proficient, 10 points below the state’s 37%. That contrasts with third- and fourth-grade math, where the school was 11 and 13 points above state results. Fifth-grade science was stronger, at 60% proficient versus 35% statewide, a 25-point advantage. Because the area has only one school and 92 students, there is no school-to-school comparison, and state-suppressed sixth-grade ELA and math results cannot be assessed.

Results declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: proficiency fell by 3 points in ELA and 4 points each in math and science, even as state results rose in all three subjects. The school remained above the state, but its advantages narrowed—from 8 to 4 points in ELA, 15 to 10 in math, and 31 to 24 in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also fell, from the 83rd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 70th in 2025–2026. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, 8 points below the state rate; the student–teacher ratio was 15.3 to 1 in 2024–2025; and 23% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.