Summary:
San Ardo Elementary is the only school in this list for San Ardo Union Elementary; it serves kindergarten through grade 8 and has 76 students. There are no other local schools here to compare, so its results are best viewed against California’s. In 2025–2026, the school’s proficiency was 18% in ELA, 30% in math and 18% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide. The most important finding is that all three results remain below state levels, with ELA showing the largest shortfall.
As the sole school, San Ardo is both the local leader and the lowest-performing school by default, rather than a standout among local peers. Its closest result to the state was math, 8 percentage points below California; its science result was 18 points lower, and ELA was 32 points lower. Grade 5 results show the same pattern: San Ardo was 24 points below the state in ELA, 12 points below in math and 19 points below in science. SchoolDigger rated the school in the 18th percentile with one star in 2025–2026, ranking it 4,743rd of 5,804 schools.
Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and the gaps with the state narrowed: San Ardo gained 5 points in ELA, 15 in math and 12 in science, while the respective gaps shrank by 5, 14 and 8 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history was uneven: the school moved from the 2nd percentile in 2021–2022 to the 24th in 2023–2024, then to the 18th in 2025–2026. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 15.2 in 2024–2025 and 95% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was nearly the state rate: 18.2% at the school, 18.2% districtwide and 18.3% statewide. Most grade-level test results are not shown; grade 5 is the only grade with school results reported in all three subjects.
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