Summary
Gauer (Melbourne A.) Elementary in Anaheim, California, serves 487 students in kindergarten through grade 6. Its latest results show a pronounced attendance challenge: chronic absenteeism was 24.1% in 2025–26, higher than in the Anaheim Elementary district (17.9%), statewide (18.3%), and every nearby school (9.9%–17.7%).
Math is Gauer’s relative academic strength, while ELA is its weakest comparison with nearby schools. In 2025–26, 27% of students were proficient in math, above the district’s 23% but below the state’s 38%; Gauer was around the middle of nearby schools, whose average was 34%. ELA proficiency was 32%, close to the district’s 32% but below the state’s 49% and the nearby average of 43%; Gauer ranked lowest among the ten schools compared. Science proficiency was 19%, below the district’s 21% and the state’s 36%; it was second-lowest among nearby schools and below their 32% average. Grade 4 stands out as a relative bright spot, while grade 5 results are especially weak in both ELA and math.
Scores have moved in different directions over time: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA rose 7 percentage points and math rose 9, while science fell 7 points and its gap to the state widened by 13 points. Absenteeism has improved from 38% in 2021–22, but rose 3 points from the prior year. SchoolDigger ranks Gauer at the 27th statewide percentile, 4,217th of 5,804 schools, with 1 star; its percentile has risen from 13 in 2021–22. In 2024–25, 65% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, the lowest share among nearby schools, and the student-teacher ratio was 24.3, close to the peer average of 24.1. SchoolDigger’s 2023–24 ranking for Special Education Students was at the 5th percentile, compared with the school’s overall 26th percentile that year, flagging a notably weaker relative result for this group. Historically, Disabled Students ranked at the 73rd percentile in 2017–18, well above the school overall at the 27th percentile; this older result does not show the group’s current standing.
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