Summary:
Winters Joint Unified has two elementary schools: Waggoner Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 2, and Shirley Rominger Intermediate, serving grades 3–5. The supplied data include test results only for Rominger, so they do not support an achievement ranking between the schools. In 2025–2026, Rominger’s proficiency was 33% in English language arts (ELA), 23% in math and 19% in science; it was below the state in all three, with an average gap of 16 percentage points. That state gap is the clearest achievement finding for the area.
Rominger stands out as stronger than the district in ELA and math, but not in science: it was 1 percentage point above the district in ELA and 4 points above in math, while 4 points below in science. Compared with the state, it was behind by 17 points in ELA, 15 in math and 17 in science. The largest grade-level gaps highlighted in the data are in grade 5: Rominger trailed the state by 24 points in both ELA and math. Waggoner cannot be placed at the top or bottom for achievement because no test results are provided for it.
Rominger’s state gaps widened from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: its scores fell by 3 points in both ELA and math and 14 points in science, while state scores rose slightly in ELA and rose by 1 point in math and 3 in science. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile also fell from the 36th to the 23rd percentile. Other measures offer a different comparison: in 2024–2025, Waggoner had a lower student–teacher ratio (22.5 versus 24.2) and lower free/reduced-lunch eligibility (51% versus 61%); in 2025–2026, Rominger had lower chronic absenteeism (13% versus 15%). These are contextual differences, not evidence that one school’s results caused another’s.
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