Summary:
Central Elementary includes seven schools—five elementary schools and two middle schools—serving elementary and middle grades, with test results available for 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. The clearest concern for families is the wide gap between schools: in 2025–2026 all-grades results, Bear Gulch Elementary scored 23% in ELA, 13% in math, and 18% in science, while the school-to-school ranges were 31, 32, and 22 percentage points, respectively.
There is no single leader across subjects. Ruth Musser Middle led ELA at 54%, about 4 points above the state; Coyote Canyon Elementary led math at 45%, 7 points above the state; and Central Elementary led science at 40%, 4 points above the state. By contrast, Bear Gulch scored below the state by 27 points in ELA, 25 in math, and 18 in science; its results are also far below the other schools’ averages of 49%, 34%, and 37%. Ruth Musser also stands out in grade 8, scoring above the state in ELA, math, and science.
Recent trends are mixed, but the group fell further behind the state overall. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, average ELA declined from 47% to 45% and math from 34% to 31%; science rose from 31% to 34% among the six schools with results, but the state improved more. Central Elementary was a notable exception, with ELA up 10 points and science up 15. SchoolDigger’s average rank percentile fell 9 points over three years, from 58 to 48; Bear Gulch dropped from 22 to 7, while Coyote Canyon remained among the highest at 64. All seven schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, ranging from 61% to 84%; similar reported figures at Coyote Canyon and Ruth Musser accompany a 13-point difference in their math results, so these measures do not neatly predict scores.
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