Summary:
Cuddeback Union Elementary has one school, Cuddeback Elementary, serving kindergarten through eighth grade, with 157 students. In 2025–2026, the school was above California in all-grades English language arts (ELA) and math, with proficiency rates of 57% versus 49% in ELA and 40% versus 38% in math. Its clearest concern is science: 26% were proficient, 10 points below the state’s 36%.
Because this is the area’s only school, there is no peer-school leader or trailer; the clearest contrasts are among grades and subjects. The strongest grade-subject results were third-grade ELA, at 83% compared with 44% statewide, and sixth-grade math, at 77% versus 37%. Results were much lower in eighth grade: ELA was 30% versus 49% statewide, and math was 10% versus 36%; fourth-grade math was also low, at 15% versus 42%. These differences show that the school’s above-state all-grades ELA and math results do not describe every grade’s experience.
Trends are mixed: ELA strengthened relative to California, while science weakened most. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Cuddeback’s ELA rate rose from 51% to 57%, widening its state advantage from 2 to 7 points. Science fell from 30% to 26% as the state rose from 33% to 36%, widening the shortfall from 2 to 10 points; math slipped from 43% to 40%, narrowing its state advantage from 5 to 2 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from the 45th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 73rd in 2025–2026, though that does not mean every subject improved. Context figures include a 15.7:1 student-teacher ratio and 59% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 1% versus 18% statewide in 2025–2026.
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