Richgrove Elementary

The Richgrove Elementary area has one school, Richgrove Elementary, serving students in kindergarten through eighth grade; it has 477 students. In 2025–26, the school’s all-grade proficiency was 25% in ELA, 17% in math, and 6% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38%, and 36%, respectively. The largest gap was in science, where the school was 30 percentage points below the state; all three subjects were substantially below California.

Because there is only one school in the area, there are no local school leaders or lower-performing peers to compare; within the school, results varied by grade. Seventh grade had the highest ELA proficiency at 33%, while fourth grade was lowest at 13%, a 20-point spread. Third grade led math at 41%, compared with 8% in fifth grade—a 33-point spread. Even the strongest grade results were below the matching state results: seventh-grade ELA was 18 points lower, and third-grade math was 6 points lower. Science proficiency in the two reported grades ranged from 5% to 8%.

Scores improved in all three subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose by 6 percentage points, math by 3, and science by 4. The school’s science gap with California narrowed by less than a point, while the ELA and math gaps narrowed by 5 and 2 points. SchoolDigger gives Richgrove Elementary 1 star and ranks it 5,154th of 5,804 schools, in the 11th percentile for 2025–26; its reported percentile moved from 7th to 11th between 2024–25 and 2025–26. Attendance is a relative bright spot: chronic absenteeism was 9%, matching the district and 10 percentage points below California. The school reported 96% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25 and a student–teacher ratio of 18.2 that year.