Junction Elementary

The Junction Elementary area has one listed school, Junction Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 416 students; there are no other listed schools to compare. The most important finding is that in 2025–2026, the school was above California in all three all-grades subjects: 55% were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 45% in math, and 42% in science, compared with 49%, 38%, and 36% statewide, respectively. Those are advantages of 5 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 6 in science.

Results vary notably by grade, with grade 4 strongest and grade 6 weakest against state results. In grade 4, ELA proficiency was 64% versus 46% statewide, a 19-point lead, while math was 67% versus 42%, a 24-point lead. In grade 6, ELA was 40% versus 48% statewide, an 8-point shortfall, and math was 27% versus 37%, a 10-point shortfall. Across grades, math results ranged by 40 points, from a high in grade 4 to a low in grade 6; the schoolwide averages therefore do not tell the whole story for families weighing a particular grade.

Year-to-year movement was mixed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s ELA result rose 2 percentage points, while math fell 4 points and science fell 2. Its advantage over the state widened by 1 point in ELA but narrowed by 5 points in both math and science. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down, from the 78th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 72nd in 2024–2025 and 69th in 2025–2026; its rating changed from 4 stars to 3 stars between the last two years. Chronic absenteeism was 11% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 18% by 8 points. Other context includes an 18.3 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 35% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these figures do not explain the test results.