Summary:
The Kings River-Hardwick Union Elementary district has one listed school, Kings River-Hardwick Elementary, serving kindergarten through 8th grade, with 860 students and a 23.1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25. With only one school listed, there is no school-to-school comparison. In 2025–26, the school’s clearest strength was proficiency in English and math: results were 21 percentage points above California in ELA and 26 points above in math.
Results vary by grade and subject, with the strongest state-relative results in 4th-grade ELA and 5th-grade math, and a below-state result in 8th-grade science. Fourth-grade ELA proficiency was 78%, compared with 46% statewide, a 32-point advantage; fifth-grade math was 72% versus 37%, a 36-point lead. The main exception was 8th-grade science, at 30% compared with 35% statewide, a 5-point shortfall. The school also had smaller-than-usual leads in 7th-grade ELA (60% versus 51%, a 9-point gap) and 8th-grade math (47% versus 36%, an 11-point gap).
Recent changes are mixed: ELA rose by about 1 percentage point from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while math fell by 3 points and science increased by 2; the state-relative math lead narrowed by 4 points and the science lead by 1. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 89th percentile with four stars in 2025–26, up from the 78th percentile in 2023–24 and 81st in 2024–25. As context, 30% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; chronic absenteeism was 7% in 2025–26, compared with 18% statewide.
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