Montague Elementary

The list for this area contains one school, Montague Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 8 with 178 students. Its most important recent change is a sharp science decline: proficiency fell from 41% in 2024–2025 to 21% in 2025–2026, while the California result rose from 33% to 36%.

With no other school in the list, Montague Elementary is the only option to compare, rather than a clear top or bottom among local schools. Its strongest all-grades subject relative to California was math, at 38% compared with 38% statewide—a gap of less than 1 percentage point. ELA was 38% versus 49% statewide, and science was 21% versus 36%. Results also vary by grade: grade 5 was below the state in all three reported subjects, including 0% in math versus 37%; in contrast, math was above the state in grades 6 and 8, by 15 and 25 percentage points, respectively.

Over the two years of results, math improved by 3 percentage points, more than the state’s 1-point rise, while science fell by 20 points as the state improved by 3. ELA slipped by 1 point, leaving the school’s gap to the state wider; across the three subjects, its simple average moved from 1 point below the state to 9 points below. SchoolDigger places the school at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, the same percentile as in 2023–2024 after reaching the 46th percentile in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 12%, compared with 18% statewide. Other context includes a 19.7 student–teacher ratio and 67% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these are school characteristics, not explanations for its results.