Summary:
The Trinidad Union school is the only school in the Trinidad Union Elementary area list. It serves kindergarten through grade 8 and enrolls 161 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was above California’s in math (47% versus 38%, an 9-point advantage) and science (43% versus 36%, a 7-point advantage), but below the state in English language arts (ELA: 45% versus 49%, a 4-point deficit). The most important caution is the sharp grade 7 weakness: results were far below the state in both ELA and math.
There is no local school-to-school leader or trailer; the strongest and weakest comparisons are across grades at this one school. Grade 3 ELA proficiency was 77%, 33 points above California, and grade 5 math was 67%, 30 points above. By contrast, grade 7 ELA was 9% versus 51% statewide, a 41-point deficit, while grade 7 math was 9% versus 38%, a 28-point deficit. The contrasts show why the all-grades results alone do not capture the school’s uneven grade-level picture.
Recent results are mixed: ELA shifted from 2 points above the state in 2024–2025 to 4 points below in 2025–2026, while the school’s math and science advantages narrowed by 2 points and 1 point, respectively, but remained positive. SchoolDigger gives the school a 4-star rating and ranks it 1,649th out of 5,804 for 2025–2026; its percentile rose from 58 to 72 since 2024–2025, though it remains 3 points below its 2023–2024 percentile of 75. Context measures include a 16.9 student-teacher ratio and 62% eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide. These context figures are observations, not evidence that they explain achievement.
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