Summary
Canyon Crest Elementary is a 420-student K–5 school in Fontana, California, serving families in Fontana Unified. Its clearest distinction is that it had the highest reported all-grades results among 10 nearby schools in all three subjects in 2025–26.
The school’s results are especially strong against nearby schools and its district: ELA, math and science proficiency was 49%, 42% and 35%, compared with nearby-school averages of 32%, 24% and 19%, and the school was ahead of the next-highest nearby result by about 3, 3 and 5 points, respectively. It also exceeded Fontana Unified by 8 points in ELA, 15 in math and 10 in science. Compared with California, math was 3 points higher, ELA was essentially level, and science was 1 point lower—making science the clearest gap with the state. Grade-level results add an important contrast: grade 4 and 5 ELA were standout results at 58% each, while grade 3 ELA was 32%, below the state’s 44% and the district’s 35%.
Results have improved over the four years shown: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA rose 6 points, math 9 and science 6, although ELA dipped in the latest year and science’s path varied. SchoolDigger ranks the school at the 59th statewide percentile and gives it 3 stars, the strongest percentile among the nearby schools. SchoolDigger’s measure of how well the school serves Hispanic students places that group at the 79th percentile, 20 points above the school overall; its English Language Learner ranking fell from the 87th percentile in 2022–23 to the 40th in 2023–24, with no later subgroup ranking provided. In 2024–25, 69% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, the lowest rate among nearby schools, while the student-teacher ratio was 21.8, above the nearby-school average of 18.8. Chronic absenteeism fell from 46% in 2021–22 to 20% in 2025–26, but rose from 16% the previous year and remained 1 point above the state rate.
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