Summary
Westside Park Elementary serves 481 students in grades K–5 in Adelanto, California. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were 20% in English language arts (ELA), 13% in math, and 9% in science; chronic absenteeism was 43%. The central concern is that low proficiency across all three subjects coincides with very high absenteeism.
Math is Westside’s strongest subject relative to the district, state, and nearby schools, while science is its weakest compared with the district and local peers. Westside was 6 percentage points below the Adelanto Elementary district and 30 below the state in ELA; in math, it was 3 and 26 points below, and in science, 8 and 27 points below. Among six nearby K–5 peers, average proficiency was 24% in ELA, 17% in math, and 19% in science, compared with Westside’s 20%, 13%, and 9%. Absenteeism also stands out: Westside’s 43% rate was 19 points above the district and 24 above the state. Only Adelanto Elementary, at 44%, was higher among those peers.
ELA and math have improved since 2022–2023: ELA rose from 10% to 20%, and math from 5% to 13%; science increased by less than 1 percentage point overall. Absenteeism fell from 56% in 2021–2022 to 43% in 2025–2026, though it ticked up from the previous year. SchoolDigger ranks Westside in the 3rd percentile statewide, with 0 stars and a rank of 5,603 out of 5,804; the district is in the 8th percentile. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 22.3, slightly below the 22.4–24.0 range among nearby peers, and 87% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger’s measure of how well the school serves English Language Learner Students showed a 35th-percentile result in 2023–2024, compared with the school’s overall 2nd percentile that year. For African American Students, the percentile rose to 33 in 2024–2025, then fell to 12 in 2025–2026; the overall school percentile was 3 in the latest year.
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