Weed Union Elementary

Weed Union Elementary has one listed school, Weed Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 8, with 268 students. With only one school listed, there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. In 2025–2026, the school’s proficiency was below California’s in every reported subject: ELA was 22% versus 49% statewide, math was 16% versus 38%, and science was 14% versus 36%. The most important takeaway is that the school trailed the state by about 22 to 27 percentage points in all three subjects.

Within the school, 7th grade stands out for ELA and math, while results at some other grades were much lower. Seventh-grade ELA proficiency was 41%, 9 points below the state comparison; 4th-grade ELA was 7%, 39 points below. In math, 7th grade reached 32%, just 5 points below its state comparison, while 5th grade was 4%, 33 points below. Science results were closer together across grades: 8th grade had the school’s highest result at 16%, 19 points below the state, and 5th grade had the lowest at 13%, 23 points below. These are grade-level contrasts within the same school, not comparisons between schools.

Recent results moved in different directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose by 3 percentage points and science by 8, while math fell by 5; the gaps to the state narrowed in ELA and science but widened by 6 points in math. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 5th percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 19th percentile in 2024–2025 and 16th in 2023–2024. Chronic absenteeism was 32% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide. For additional context, 78.7% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 17.6:1 in 2024–2025; these figures do not explain the test results.