Summary:
The Vallecitos Elementary area has one listed school, Vallecitos Elementary, serving 195 students in kindergarten through grade 8, so families have no other listed local school to compare. In 2025–2026, all-grade results were below California in every tested subject: ELA was 47% versus 49% statewide (2 percentage points lower), math was 32% versus 38% (6 points lower), and science was 26% versus 36% (10 points lower). Chronic absenteeism was lower than the state figure, at 6% versus 18%. The clearest overall academic concern is science, where the school’s gap with the state was largest.
Within Vallecitos Elementary, grade 5 was the consistent low point: ELA results were 21% (28 points below the matching state grade), math was 5% (31 points below), and science was 21% (14 points below). Some older-grade results were much stronger: grade 8 ELA reached 69%, 19 points above the state grade, and grade 7 math reached 52%, 15 points above the state. These grade differences show why all-grade averages do not tell the whole story: results vary considerably across the school’s grades.
Results changed in mixed ways over time. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s ELA score rose by 2 points and its gap with the state narrowed by 2 points; math rose by 2 points. Science fell by 3 points while the state result rose by 3, widening the school’s gap by 6 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 51st percentile in 2023–2024, 54th in 2024–2025, and 34th in 2025–2026; its rating also shifted from 3 stars to 2 in the latest year. The school reported 21.6 students per teacher and 81% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these are context measures, not explanations of results. Because only one school is listed and grade cohorts may be small, school-to-school comparisons are unavailable and grade results may fluctuate.
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