Summary:
The data covers one K–8 school, Buena Vista Elementary, serving 180 students in California; because it is the only school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison. The clearest overall concern is that ELA and math proficiency are below state results, while science is nearly level: the school reached 41% in ELA and 33% in math, compared with 49% and 38% statewide, while science was 35.7% versus 36.0%.
Within the school’s results, science is the strongest subject relative to California, and ELA has the largest overall shortfall. Grade-level results vary notably: Grade 8 ELA was 57%, 7 percentage points above the state, while Grade 7 ELA was 25%, 26 points below. Math also differed by grade: Grade 8 was 2 points above the state, but Grade 6 was 15 points below. Science results were more consistent across grades, ranging from 35% in Grade 8 to 37% in Grade 5.
Recent progress is mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Buena Vista Elementary rose 18 percentage points in science, from 18% to 36%, while ELA fell 7 points and math fell 2; the science gap with California narrowed by 14 points. SchoolDigger’s reported ranking percentile declined from 58 to 47 across the three ranking years, and its rating went from 3 stars to 2. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 18 in 2024–25, and 52% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures describe the school, but do not establish what explains its results.
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