Garfield Elementary

The list covers one school, Garfield Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 6 with 73 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 70% in ELA and 72% in math, compared with California’s 49% and 38%, respectively. Most importantly, Garfield Elementary remains well above the state in both subjects—by 21 percentage points in ELA and 34 points in math.

There is no other school in this list to rank above or below Garfield Elementary; its reported grade-level results also beat the state in every available grade and subject. The largest reported lead was 42 points in grade 4 math, while the smallest was 20 points in grade 3 ELA. Grade 6 ELA was another strong result, 37 points above the state. Because this list contains only one school, there is no local school-to-school comparison, and fifth-grade ELA and math results are suppressed.

Proficiency at Garfield Elementary declined between the two reported years: ELA went from 79% in 2024–2025 to 70% in 2025–2026, and math from 79% to 72%. California’s results edged upward, so the school’s lead narrowed by 9 points in ELA and 8 points in math. SchoolDigger rates it five stars and ranks it 472 of 5,804 schools, in the 92nd percentile, for 2025–2026; its ranking shifted from 145 of 5,857 schools (98th percentile) the year before. Chronic absenteeism was 8% in 2025–2026, versus 18% statewide. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 18.2 and 27% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these measures do not establish why the school’s results differ.