Summary:
Walnut Creek Elementary has one middle school, Walnut Creek Intermediate, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 940 students. Its 2025–2026 results were above California’s proficiency rates in English language arts (ELA), mathematics and science. The most important finding is that the school exceeded state rates in all three subjects: 73% versus 49% in ELA, 71% versus 38% in mathematics, and 67% versus 36% in science—advantages of 24, 33 and 31 percentage points, respectively.
There is no within-area top-or-bottom comparison because only one school is listed; its grade-level results nevertheless show where performance is strongest and where it trails district results. Compared with the state, the school was ahead in every tested grade: by 29, 22 and 20 percentage points in grades 6, 7 and 8 ELA, and by 36, 30 and 36 points in mathematics. Grade 6 was slightly above district results in ELA and math, by 1 point in each; grades 7 and 8 were below the district in both subjects. The clearest relative soft spot is grade 7, where results were 3 points below district ELA and 3 points below district mathematics.
Scores improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, especially in science: gains were 3 points in ELA, 6 in mathematics and 16 in science, widening the school’s advantage over the state in each subject. SchoolDigger also gives the school five stars; its statewide percentile rose from 90 to 94, and its rank improved from 273rd of 2,783 schools to 168th of 2,703. Other context includes a 22.1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 15% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 18% but above the district’s 9%.
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