Summary:
There is one elementary school in Capay Joint Union Elementary: Capay Joint Union Elementary, serving grades K–8 with 211 students in 2024–2025. Its latest all-grade test results, for 2025–2026, put it close to California in English language arts (ELA) and math, but further behind in science. The clearest overall concern is science, where proficiency was 12 percentage points below the state.
Because this is the only school in the area, it is both the highest and lowest by default; grade-level results show where it stands out. Grade 3 was a bright spot: ELA proficiency was 57%, 12 points above California, and math was 61%, 14 points above. Grade 8 also exceeded state results in ELA and math, by 9 and 11 points. Grade 6 math was the sharpest weakness: 6% were proficient, compared with 37% statewide, a 31-point gap. Across all grades, ELA was 48% versus 49% statewide, math was 36% versus 38%, and science was 24% versus 36%.
Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with the biggest change in ELA: it rose from 32% to 48%, narrowing the gap with California from 17 points to 1. Math increased from 33% to 36%, and science from 19% to 24%; their gaps narrowed by 2 points and 1 point, respectively. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 50th percentile with three stars in 2025–2026, up from the 45th percentile and two stars the prior year, but below its 70th-percentile, three-star ranking in 2023–2024. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 9%, versus 18% statewide, in 2025–2026; the student–teacher ratio was 21.1 in 2024–2025; and 41% were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025.
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