Valley Home Joint Elementary

Valley Home Joint Elementary has one listed school, Valley Home Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 191 students. In 2025–2026, the school was below California in all three all-grade subjects: 31% proficient in English language arts (ELA) versus 49% statewide, 33% in math versus 38%, and 11% in science versus 36%. The clearest overall concern is science, with the largest state gap at 25 percentage points.

Because this is the only listed school, there is no school-to-school comparison. Within its results, math is closest to the state overall, while science is farthest behind; grade 3 is the standout. Third-grade ELA was 59% proficient versus 44% statewide, a 15-point advantage, and math was 55% versus 47%, an 8-point advantage. Results were weaker in later grades: ELA fell below state results in grades 4–8, and math did so in grades 4–8 as well. Science was low in both reported grades: grade 5 scored 12% versus 35% statewide, and grade 8 scored 10% versus 35%.

Recent results show mixed movement, with science worsening most: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, school ELA proficiency fell 2 points, math rose 1 point, and science fell 7 points, while California’s results rose slightly in all three subjects. The school’s science gap widened from 15 to 25 points; its ELA gap widened from 16 to 18 points, while math remained about 6 points below the state. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 3,867th of 5,869 schools (34th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 3,685th of 5,804 (37th percentile) in 2025–2026, with a two-star rating in each year. Chronic absenteeism was lower than the state rate in 2025–2026, at 9% versus 18%. As context, 34% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025; this describes the school’s reported student context, not the cause of its results.