Summary
John Reith Elementary is a K–6 school in Sacramento’s Elk Grove Unified district, serving 572 students. In 2025–2026, its chronic absenteeism rate was 32%, higher than the district’s 22% and California’s 18%. The most important finding is that students’ proficiency was below the state, district, and nearby-school averages in all three reported subjects.
Science was the school’s strongest subject relative to those comparisons, while mathematics was weakest. In 2025–2026, 19% of students were proficient in science, compared with 36% statewide, 37% in Elk Grove Unified, and a 25% average among nearby schools. ELA proficiency was 31% (state 49%, district 54%, nearby average 38%). Mathematics was 16% (state 38%, district 44%, nearby average 31%); John Reith ranked 10th among the 11 schools in that subject. Science ranked 9th and ELA 8th. Fourth-grade ELA was a relative bright spot at 41%, fifth among the 11 schools, though still below the state’s 46% for that grade.
Results have shifted over time: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, ELA was nearly unchanged at 31%, mathematics declined from 19% to 16%, and science rose from 13% to 19%; the state gaps widened in ELA and math and were essentially unchanged in science. Chronic absenteeism has improved, falling 14 percentage points from 45% in 2021–2022, but remains high. SchoolDigger rates John Reith at the 17th statewide percentile and 1 star in 2025–2026, third-lowest among the 11 schools, while the district is at the 64th percentile and 3 stars. The school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 22.8, the second-lowest among nearby schools; its free/reduced lunch eligible rate was 87% that year, the second-highest among nearby schools reporting the measure. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for English Language Learner Students—a measure of how well it rates the school serving that group—fell from 67 in 2021–2022 to 29 in 2023–2024, though it remained above the school’s overall percentile of 8 in 2023–2024.
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