Summary
Blanchard Elementary serves 317 students in grades K–6 in Santa Paula, in an area with several nearby elementary schools. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were below California’s in all three tested subjects, and science was its clearest academic concern: only 7% of students were proficient, compared with 36% statewide. Overall, the most important finding is that Blanchard’s science and ELA results were the lowest among five nearby K–6 schools in its district.
Math is the school’s strongest subject relative to the district, while science and ELA lag. Blanchard’s proficiency was 24% in math and 25% in ELA; math was nearly level with the Santa Paula Unified result, while ELA was 10 percentage points lower. Science was 14 points below the district. Compared with the five same-district K–6 schools, Blanchard was 19 points below their average in science, 13 points below in ELA, and 7 points below in math. There is a bright spot by grade: sixth-grade math was 31%, the highest among those schools and 10 points above the district, though still 7 points below the state. Fifth grade was a concern, with the school’s lowest results in ELA (22%) and math (16%), as well as 7% in science.
ELA and math have improved since 2022–2023, rising 6 and 10 percentage points, respectively, while science fell 11 points. Chronic absenteeism also declined, from 43% in 2021–2022 to 20% in 2025–2026, slightly above the state rate of 18%. SchoolDigger gives Blanchard a 15th-percentile ranking and 1 star for 2025–2026, the lowest percentile among nearby schools with a reported rank, though it is 9 points above its 2023–2024 low. Its student-teacher ratio was 18.6 in 2024–2025, the second-lowest among the same-district schools; free/reduced lunch eligible was 84% that year. One subgroup result stands out: SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for English Language Learner Students fell from 36 in 2021–2022 to 20 in 2023–2024, a 16-point decline, though it remained 14 points above Blanchard’s overall percentile of 6 that year.
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