Summary
Laurelglen Elementary enrolls 574 students in grades K–6 in Bakersfield and is part of the Panama-Buena Vista Union district. Its 2025–2026 results were below district and state averages in English language arts (ELA), math, and science. The most important concern is science: just 20% of students were proficient, 11 percentage points below the district and 16 below the state.
ELA is Laurelglen’s strongest subject relative to local and statewide benchmarks, while science and math are weaker. In ELA, 41% were proficient, compared with 49% in both the district and state; in math, 24% were proficient, 8 points below the district and 14 below the state. Nearby-school averages were 45% in ELA, 35% in math, and 31% in science, so Laurelglen trailed those averages in all three subjects. Among 11 nearby schools, it ranked seventh in ELA and math results and eighth in science. Results vary by grade: sixth-grade ELA proficiency was 53%, above the district’s 48% and the state’s 48%, while fifth-grade math was 11%, 16 points below the district and 26 below the state.
Results have improved over the longer term, but progress is uneven: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, ELA rose 5 percentage points, math 3, and science 2. The ELA gap with the state narrowed, while math and science gaps widened; in the latest year, ELA rose 5 points, but math and science fell. SchoolDigger ranked Laurelglen at the 36th percentile and gave it 2 stars in 2025–2026, up from the 32nd percentile the year before but below its 55th-percentile standing in 2017–2018. Its student–teacher ratio was 23.1 in 2024–2025, slightly below the nearby-school average of 23.9. In that same year, 76% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. SchoolDigger’s statewide effectiveness ranking for Multiracial Students was at the 4th percentile, notably below the school’s overall 36th percentile; for Special Education Students, it was at the 59th percentile, above the overall ranking.
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