Orchard Elementary

The Orchard area has one listed school, Orchard Elementary, a K–8 school serving 740 students. In 2025–26, its all-grade proficiency was 39% in English language arts (ELA), 30% in math and 32% in science, compared with California results of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. Results improved in all three subjects from the prior year, but the most important finding is that Orchard remained below the state in each subject.

There is no school-to-school top or bottom in this list, but results vary notably by grade. Grade 8 was a relative bright spot: ELA proficiency was 50%, about 1 point above the state, and science was 38%, 2 points above. Grade 4 was the clearest concern: ELA was 21%, 25 points below the state, and math was also 21%, 21 points below. Across all grades, science was closest to the state result, trailing by 4 points, while math trailed by 8 and ELA by 10.

Orchard Elementary made the biggest gains in science and math: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, science rose 6 points, math 3 points and ELA 1 point. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile rose from 30 in 2024–25 to 34 in 2025–26, after 38 in 2023–24; its rating went from two stars to one and back to two. Chronic absenteeism was 15%, below the statewide 18%. For context, the 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 16.4, and 50% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These figures offer context for families, but the list contains no other schools for comparison.