Summary:
The Irvine Chinese Immersion Academy District has one listed school, Irvine Chinese Immersion Academy, serving kindergarten through grade 8 in Irvine, with 455 students. The key finding for parents is that in 2025–2026 the school’s proficiency rates were well above California’s in every reported subject: 80% in English language arts (ELA), 88% in math and 89% in science, compared with 49%, 38% and 36% statewide.
With only one school, there is no within-district top or bottom school to compare; instead, the academy stands out against state results. Its advantage was largest in science, at 53 percentage points, followed by math at 49 points and ELA at 31 points. The same pattern of outperforming the state appears in every reported grade-level comparison, with gaps from 32 points in grade 3 ELA to 58 points in grade 5 math. Grade 5 was a particular strength: 94% were proficient in math and 92% in ELA. The school’s chronic absenteeism was also lower than the state’s in 2025–2026: 6% versus 18%, a 13-point difference.
ELA and math proficiency declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while California’s results edged up, so the school’s lead narrowed but remained substantial. ELA fell from 85% to 80%, and math from 91% to 88%; the state gaps narrowed by 5 points in each subject. No earlier science result was supplied for comparison. SchoolDigger gives the district five stars and ranks it 12 out of 968; its school ranking moved from 113 out of 5,857 to 123 out of 5,804, while remaining at the 98th percentile in both years. The school’s reported student–teacher ratio was 27.6:1 in 2024–2025, and 13% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these are useful context figures, not explanations for results.
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