Summary:
The Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes area has one listed school, serving kindergarten through Grade 8, with 195 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades results were 49% proficient in English language arts (ELA), 35% in mathematics, and 43% in science, compared with California results of 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively. The school’s reported chronic absenteeism rate was 4%, versus 18% statewide. The clearest overall finding is that science is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while math remains below the state level.
Because Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes is the only listed school, there are no other local schools to identify as standouts or compare at the top and bottom. By subject, science leads: the school was 7 percentage points above the state, while ELA was 1 point below and math was 3 points below. Grade-level results show important differences within the school. Grade 3 ELA was 25 points above its state comparison, and Grade 8 ELA was 10 points above; Grades 4–7 were below. In math, Grades 3 and 4 were 15 and 13 points above the state, but Grades 5–8 were 8 to 14 points below. Grade 8 science was 15 points above the state.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with proficiency rising 3 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 8 in science; state results rose by 0, 1, and 3 points, respectively. The school improved relative to the state in all three subjects, though math remained below it. SchoolDigger rates Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes at 3 stars, rank 2,556 of 5,804, in the 56th percentile; its percentile was 59 in 2023–2024 and 51 in 2024–2025. The school’s student–teacher ratio was 21.9 in 2024–2025, and 41.5% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. The supplied district listing gives Hughes-Elizabeth Lakes Union Elementary 3 stars and a SchoolDigger rank of 367 of 968, in the 62nd percentile.
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