Summary:
The listed middle-school set for Rancho Santa Fe Elementary includes one school, R. Roger Rowe Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 189 students. With one school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison. The most important finding is that the school’s 2025–26 proficiency rates were well above state results in ELA, math and science.
R. Roger Rowe Middle is both the top and bottom school in this one-school set, so there are no local peers to rank against. Its 2025–26 proficiency was 90% in ELA, 87% in math and 61% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38% and 36%. That puts the school 41 percentage points above the state in ELA, 48 points above in math and 25 points above in science. Math has the largest state-relative advantage, although ELA is the school’s highest-scoring subject; science is its lowest-scoring subject and smallest state-relative advantage. The school was also 2 points above district results in ELA and 1 point above in math, but 8 points below the district in science.
Results improved in ELA and math from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while science declined: ELA rose 5 percentage points and math rose 4, while science fell 3. The school’s advantage over state rates grew by 4 points in ELA and 3 in math, but narrowed by 6 in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school 40th of 2,703 statewide in 2025–26, in the 99th percentile with five stars, up from 47th of 2,761 in 2024–25 and 89th of 2,783 in 2023–24. Chronic absenteeism was about 10%, close to the district’s 9% and below the state’s 18% in 2025–26. The student-teacher ratio was 11:1 in 2024–25; 6% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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