Summary
Red Hawk Elementary is a 496-student K–5 school in Temecula Valley Unified, serving the Temecula, California area. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were above district and state results in English language arts (ELA), math, and science. Science is its clearest distinction: 72% of students were proficient, versus 51% districtwide, 36% statewide, and a 53% average at nearby K–5 schools—leading the local group.
Red Hawk’s results were strongest in science and math compared with nearby schools, while ELA was its relative weakness, though it still beat all three comparison averages. It was 19 percentage points above nearby schools in science and 9 points above in math, compared with a 2-point ELA advantage; it ranked first of ten nearby K–5 schools in science, third in math, and fifth in ELA. Results also vary by grade: fifth-grade ELA and math were 85% and 78%, while third-grade results were 60% and 62%. Third-grade ELA was below the district’s 64% and below every nearby K–5 school except Vail Elementary. Fifth-grade ELA was 3 points above the next-highest nearby result at Abby Reinke Elementary, and fifth-grade math led it by 16 points.
All three subjects improved between 2022–2023 and 2025–2026: ELA rose 3 percentage points, math 8, and science 18. Chronic absenteeism also fell from 30% in 2021–2022 to 7% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 15% and state’s 18%. SchoolDigger ranked Red Hawk 805th of 5,804 California schools, at the 86th percentile with four stars; it was third among 11 nearby schools. In 2024–2025, its student–teacher ratio was 23.6, second-highest among nearby K–5 schools, and 44% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a nearby-school average of 36%. SchoolDigger’s statewide subgroup percentile for how well the school serves “Multi-racial Students” rose from 38 in 2021–2022 to 94 in 2024–2025; for “Asian Students,” it rose from 35 in 2023–2024 to 75 in 2025–2026.
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