Summary
Lenwood Elementary is a K–4 school in Barstow, California, serving 351 students in the Barstow area. Its most pressing academic concern is English language arts: in 2025–26, 15% of students were proficient, compared with 49% statewide and 18% in Barstow Unified.
Math is a relative strength compared with the district, but not with the state: 15% of Lenwood students were proficient in 2025–26, about 4 percentage points above the district’s 11%, but 23 points below the state’s 38%. Among nearby K–4 schools with scores, Lenwood ranked fourth of six in ELA and fifth of six in math. Results also vary by grade: third-grade math proficiency was 19%, about 1 point above the district, while fourth-grade proficiency was 12%, about 5 points below it. The school’s ELA results were about 15% in each tested grade, below the state rates.
Results have moved in different directions over time: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, math proficiency rose 4 points to 15%, while ELA fell 5 points overall to 15%, despite a recent rebound. Chronic absenteeism has also declined, from 53% in 2021–22 to 41% in 2025–26, though it remains above the state’s 18% and below the district’s 48%. SchoolDigger ranks Lenwood 5,670th of 5,804 California schools, at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars. Its 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 20.8, the third-lowest among the nine nearby schools, and 86% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible that year. A notable historical subgroup result: SchoolDigger’s measure of how well Lenwood serves English Language Learner Students fell from the 23rd percentile in 2021–22 to the 1st percentile in 2022–23, while the school’s overall percentile was 5 and then 7; the subgroup series ends in 2022–23.
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