Lafayette Elementary

The Lafayette Elementary area includes five schools: four elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 5 and M. H. Stanley Middle, serving grades 6–8. In 2025–26, all five schools scored above California’s results in ELA, math, and science. Their unweighted averages were 82% in ELA, 82% in math, and 64% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%; the biggest average advantage over the state was in math, at 43 percentage points.

Happy Valley Elementary stands out in ELA and science, leading all five schools at 85% and 72%. Springhill Elementary leads in math at 84%. At the other end, M. H. Stanley Middle has the lowest all-grades ELA and math results, at 78% and 76%; its science score is 63%. Science varies most across the schools: Happy Valley’s result is 12 percentage points above Springhill’s. Grade-level leaders also vary: Springhill leads grade 3 ELA and grade 5 math, Lafayette Elementary leads grade 4 ELA and math, and Happy Valley leads grade 5 ELA and science.

Recent results are mixed: the five-school averages fell by about 1 point in ELA, 1 point in math, and 4 points in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while the average gaps over the state narrowed by 1, 2, and 7 points, respectively. Stanley’s science result rose 8 points, even as every elementary school’s science score declined. SchoolDigger gives all five schools five stars; its latest rankings place the elementary schools 125th to 313th among 5,804 elementary schools and Stanley 127th among 2,703 middle schools. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 2% to 10%, and elementary student-teacher ratios ranged from 21.7 to 24.5. California is a statewide-free-meals state, so those school-level eligible shares do not indicate whether students can receive free meals. Grade-level scores compare the elementary schools directly, but Stanley serves different grades.