Summary
Sutter Elementary serves 450 students in grades K–5 in Antioch, within Antioch Unified. In 2025–26, about 29% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 20% in math and 17% in science. Those results were below California’s in every subject, with gaps of 20, 19 and 19 percentage points, respectively. The most important takeaway is that proficiency remains low compared with the state, even though Sutter is not among the weakest nearby schools.
Sutter’s clearest strength against nearby K–5 schools is ELA: it ranked fourth of nine, and its result was 3 points above their average. It ranked fifth of nine in math and science; math was 1 point below the nearby average, while science was 2 points above it. Compared with the district, Sutter was 1 point higher in ELA and 4 points higher in math, but 1 point lower in science. Grade-level results highlight a particular concern: fourth-grade math proficiency was about 15%, 28 points below the state and sixth of nine nearby schools. Fifth-grade ELA was stronger at about 32%, ranking third of nine.
Results have declined overall since 2022–23: ELA fell 2 percentage points, math 3 and science 1, while the gap from state results widened in all three subjects. There was a recent improvement in ELA and math, up 4 and 1 points from 2024–25, but science fell 5 points. SchoolDigger placed Sutter at the 16th percentile statewide with one star in 2025–26, compared with the district’s 14th percentile and one star; locally, Sutter ranked behind Rocketship Delta Prep, Muir (John) Elementary and Kimball Elementary. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well Sutter serves African American students was at the 48th percentile, notably higher than its 16th-percentile overall ranking; its ranking for Hispanic students fell 14 points, from the 30th to the 16th percentile between 2023–24 and 2025–26. As context, 76% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, close to the nearby-school average of 74%, and the student–teacher ratio was 20.9, near the local district-school average of 20.8.
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