Summary
Arena Elementary is a K–8 school in Point Arena, California, with 239 students. In 2025–26, 24% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 9% in math and 17% in science, compared with statewide rates of 49%, 38% and 36%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism was also high at 43%, versus 18% statewide. The most important academic concern is math: proficiency was 30 percentage points below the state rate and lower than at either nearby school with a reported result.
Among nearby schools, Arena had the lowest ELA and math results: its ELA proficiency was 24%, compared with 30% at Anderson Valley Elementary and 29% at Manchester Elementary; in math, Arena’s 9% trailed their 26% and 18%. Science was a relative bright spot: Arena’s 17% was about 4 points above Anderson Valley’s 13%, though Manchester’s result is suppressed. Arena’s district results matched the school’s in every subject, so there was no measured school-district difference. Absenteeism remains a concern: Arena’s 43% rate was higher than the district’s 40% and the nearby schools’ 31% and 32%, despite falling 24 points since 2021–22.
Results have worsened over the supplied test-score series while state rates rose: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, Arena’s ELA fell 6 points, math 9 points and science 6 points, and the state gap widened in all three subjects. SchoolDigger’s statewide school ranking was at the 8th percentile in 2025–26 (rank 5,322 of 5,804, 0 stars), down from the 33rd percentile in 2021–22. Its ranking for how well it serves Low Socio Economic Status Students fell from the 19th percentile in 2023–24 to the 2nd in 2025–26, compared with an overall school percentile of 8. In 2024–25, the student-teacher ratio was 21.8, versus 19 at Anderson Valley and 8.5 at Manchester; 61% of Arena students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Manchester’s science result is suppressed, and the nearby-school comparisons are limited to the two schools listed.
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