Colfax Elementary

The area list contains one school, Colfax Elementary, a K–8 school with 345 students. In 2025–2026, 48% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 40% in math, and 30% in science; compared with California, the school was 1 percentage point below in ELA, 2 points above in math, and 6 points below in science. The clearest takeaway is that results improved across all three subjects, with math now above the state and ELA close to it.

Because this is the only school listed, it is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school in this group by default; the more useful contrasts are between grades. Fourth-grade ELA stood out at 65%, compared with 46% statewide, or 19 points higher. Eighth-grade math was 61% versus 36% statewide, a 25-point advantage. Results were weaker in some grades: third-grade ELA was 8 points below the state, sixth-grade math was 13 points below, and fifth-grade science was 8 points below. The school’s grade-level results varied by 29 points in ELA and 37 points in math, so the overall figures do not describe every grade equally.

Proficiency rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 18 points in ELA, 11 in math, and 10 in science, while state results increased by about 0, 1, and 3 points, respectively; Colfax’s gap narrowed in each subject. Science remains the largest current shortfall, despite its improvement. SchoolDigger rated the school 2 stars and at the 49th percentile in 2025–2026, up from 1 star and the 26th percentile in 2024–2025. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 19.4 in 2024–2025, with 41% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; chronic absenteeism was 19% versus 18% statewide. With only one school in the list, these figures cannot support peer-school comparisons.