Elementary Schools in Denair Unified

Denair Unified has one listed elementary school, Denair Elementary Charter Academy, serving kindergarten through grade 5, with 554 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s results were below California’s in all three reported core subjects: 24% were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 15% in math, and 16% in science, compared with 49%, 38%, and 36% statewide. The most important finding is that achievement in each of these core subjects fell substantially short of state results.

There is no meaningful top-versus-bottom comparison: Denair Elementary Charter Academy is the only school listed, so it is both the highest and lowest by default. Among core subjects, math had the smallest state gap, at 23 points below California, compared with 25 points below in ELA and 20 points below in science. CSA Spanish results were more mixed: Writing was 21% and Listening 25%, respectively 3 points above and 1 point above the state; Overall was 10%, about even with the state but 1 point below, while Reading was 4%, 3 points below. These are distinct assessments, so their results should not be treated as directly interchangeable. Within-grade results also varied: grade 3 was lowest in ELA at 15%, while grade 5 was lowest in math at 8%.

Core-subject results moved further behind the state from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the school’s ELA result fell from 27% to 24%, math from 20% to 15%, and science from 20% to 16%; the respective state gaps widened by 3, 6, and 7 points. Spanish Listening and Writing improved instead, rising by 10 and 9 points, while Overall increased by 3 and Reading was essentially unchanged. SchoolDigger’s ranking also declined, from the 20th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 9th percentile in 2025–2026. As context, 65% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 18.6; chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 16%, below the district’s 19% and the state’s 18%. With only one school listed, the figures cannot show how it compares with other local schools or explain the reasons for its results.