Summary:
The area has one school, El Nido Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 8, with 156 students and a student–teacher ratio of 17.3:1 in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, its all-grades ELA proficiency was 53%, 3 percentage points above California’s 49%, and math was 41%, also 3 points above the state’s 38%. The clearest concern is science: 21% of students were proficient, 15 points below the state’s 36%.
There are no school-to-school standouts because this area has just one school; instead, grade-level results show where performance is strongest and weakest. Grade 4 led reported ELA results at 64%, while grade 6 was lowest at 33%, a 31-point range; grade 4 was 19 points above its state comparison, while grade 6 was 15 points below. In math, grade 5 was strongest at 63%, 26 points above its state comparison, but grades 6 and 7 were 13 points below their state results. Both reported science grades—5 and 8—were below the state. Chronic absenteeism was a positive indicator: 3% at the school compared with 18% statewide. Third-grade ELA and math results are suppressed and unknown, and the single-school list does not allow school-to-school comparisons.
Results improved in ELA and math but declined in science. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose 8 points and shifted from 4 points below the state to 3 points above; math rose 6 points, moving from 1 point below to 3 points above. Science fell 9 points, while the state result rose, widening the school’s shortfall to 15 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from the 30th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 58th percentile in 2025–2026, and its rating increased from 2 to 3 stars. The school reported 95% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; this is context alongside a mixed subject profile, not an explanation for the results.
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