Palo Verde Union Elementary

The Palo Verde Union Elementary list contains one school, Palo Verde Elementary, which serves kindergarten through grade 8 and has 511 students. In 2025–26, its all-grade math result was nearly even with California’s, while ELA and science were below the state: math was 38.0% versus 38.4%, ELA was 40% versus 49%, and science was 29% versus 36%. The most important takeaway is that performance differs by subject: math is close to the state, but ELA has the largest overall gap.

There is no meaningful local top-to-bottom school comparison because only one school is listed. Within the school, however, results vary considerably by grade, especially in ELA: grade 7 was 7 points above the state and grade 5 was 7 points above, while grade 4 was 19 points below and grade 6 was 17 points below. Math also varied, with grade 7 8 points above the state and grade 4 10 points below. In science, grade 5 was 4 points above the state, while grade 8 was 13 points below. These differences make grade-level results more useful than a single schoolwide figure when considering a child’s grade.

Recent changes were mixed, but improvement in math and science narrowed the average gap with the state: Palo Verde gained 4 points in math and 9 in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while ELA fell 1 point. The equal-subject average gap improved from 8 points below the state to 5 points below; ELA’s gap widened by 1 point. Chronic absenteeism was a relative strength at 9%, compared with 18% statewide. SchoolDigger gave the school 2 stars and ranked it in the 45th percentile statewide in 2025–26, following a drop from the 62nd percentile in 2023–24 and a small rebound from the 44th percentile the following year. As context, its student–teacher ratio was 22.2 in 2024–25, and 88% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.