Summary:
The Waukena Joint Union Elementary school list covers one K–8 school in the Waukena Joint Union Elementary district, with 220 students. In 2025–26, 28% of students were proficient in math, 27% in English language arts (ELA) and 20% in science, compared with California rates of 38%, 49% and 36%, respectively. The most important finding is that the school was below the state in all three subjects, with its largest gap in ELA: 22 percentage points.
There is no other school in this list to compare, so Waukena is both the highest- and lowest-performing school locally. Its math result was closest to the state rate, 10 points lower, while science was 16 points lower. Grade results show an important exception: math in grade 6 was 40%, 3 points above California, and in grade 8 it was 42%, 6 points above the state. Math in grades 3–5 and 7 was below state rates, while ELA was below the state in every reported grade. Within the school, ELA ranged from 9% in grade 4 to 38% in grade 5.
Results weakened from 2024–25 to 2025–26, especially in science and ELA: Waukena’s ELA rate fell 9 points to 27%, math fell by less than a point to 28%, and science fell 17 points to 20%. Its gap with California widened by 10 points in ELA, 2 points in math and 20 points in science. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 21st percentile with 1 star in 2025–26, down from the 38th percentile and 2 stars the year before. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 22 in 2024–25 and 84% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was lower than the state rate: 17% compared with 18%, a 2-point difference.
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