Summary:
The Rancho Santa Fe Elementary district has two schools serving kindergarten through grade 8: R. Roger Rowe Elementary (K–5) and R. Roger Rowe Middle (grades 6–8). In 2025–2026, both schools scored well above state results in English language arts (ELA), math and science. The strongest shared result is math: the schools were 47 and 48 percentage points above the state, respectively.
R. Roger Rowe Middle had the higher reported all-grades ELA and math results—90% versus 87% in ELA, and 87% versus 86% in math—while R. Roger Rowe Elementary had the higher science result, 78% versus 61%. The science contrast is also visible against each school’s tested-grade state benchmark: Elementary’s grade 5 result was 42 percentage points above its state rate, while Middle’s grade 8 result was 26 points above. SchoolDigger gives both schools five stars and ranks each in the 99th percentile: Elementary is 45th of 5,804 elementary schools, and Middle is 40th of 2,703 middle schools. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades scores are not like-for-like comparisons.
Across the two schools, average ELA results rose by 4 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and average math rose by 1 point; average science fell by 3 points. Both schools improved in ELA, Middle improved in math while Elementary dipped slightly, and both declined in science. Middle’s SchoolDigger rank improved from 89th in 2023–2024 to 40th in 2025–2026; Elementary moved from 58th to 45th over those years. As additional context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 5% at Elementary and 6% at Middle, and student-teacher ratios were 14.1 and 11. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 9% at Elementary and 10% at Middle, compared with 18% statewide.
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