Summary
Walt Disney Elementary is a 419-student K–5 school in Burbank, California, serving families in Burbank Unified. Its clearest academic strength is mathematics: in 2025–2026, it led the nearby district elementary schools in math proficiency. The main takeaway for families is that math is a standout strength even among schools serving the same area.
Compared with the nine nearby Burbank Unified K–5 schools, Walt Disney ranked first in math and second in ELA, but second-lowest in science. Math proficiency was 62%, versus a nearby-school average of 54%, and it exceeded every school in that group; it was also above the district’s 48% and the state’s 38%. ELA was 62%, 7 percentage points above the nearby average of 55%, and above the district and state. Science was more mixed: Walt Disney’s 38% was slightly above the state’s 36%, but below the district’s 44% and the nearby average of 46%; only William McKinley Elementary scored lower among those nine schools. Grade 5 ELA is a particular concern: Walt Disney’s 55% was below the district’s 61%, though above the state’s 49%, and higher only than McKinley among the 11 nearby schools.
Results have changed unevenly over time: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, math rose 12 percentage points, while ELA fell 6 points overall despite a latest-year rebound, and science fell 16 points. SchoolDigger ranks Walt Disney 1,229th of 5,804 statewide, in the 79th percentile with four stars; its percentile rose from 67 in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for how well the school serves White students also rose sharply, from 34 in 2023–2024 to 65 in 2025–2026, compared with an overall percentile of 79 that year. Other context: chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 18%; the 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 24.6, close to the nearby average of 24.4. In 2024–2025, 37% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a nearby-school average of 30%.
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