Summary
Del Vista Math and Science Academy is a K–5 school serving 526 students in Delano, California, in the Delano Union Elementary district. In 2025–2026, SchoolDigger ranked it 3,069th of 5,804 California schools, at the 47th percentile with 2 stars. The most important takeaway is that math is a modest bright spot, while ELA is the clearest academic concern: proficiency was 39% in math but 39% in ELA, compared with 49% in both the district and state for ELA.
Compared with nearby same-district K–5 schools, the school is around the middle overall, not a local leader. Its ELA proficiency was 9 percentage points below the district and 10 below the state, and 1 point below the nearby-school average. Math was 1 point above both the district and state and 1 point above the nearby-school average. Science proficiency was 29%, below the district by 2 points and the state by 7; it was also 2 points below the nearby-school average. Grade-level results show a sharper contrast: third grade had the lowest ELA and math results among nearby same-district schools, while fourth grade was a relative strength, with 47% in ELA and 45% in math—higher than the district and state in both subjects.
Math has improved over time, rising 7 points from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, while ELA fell 1 point overall after peaking in 2023–2024; its gap with the state widened by 3 points. Science rose 10 points over those four years, though its path was uneven. Attendance is a concern locally: chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, above the district’s 5% and every listed nearby same-district school, but below the state’s 18%. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 20.5, and 90% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. SchoolDigger’s subgroup rankings also showed a notable result for English Language Learner Students: the school was at the 87th percentile in 2023–2024, compared with its overall 56th percentile that year, indicating stronger relative standing in how well it served that group. For Female Students, its ranking fell from the 60th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 33rd in 2025–2026, below the school’s overall 47th percentile that year.
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