Summary
Las Positas Elementary in La Habra, California, serves grades K–5 and enrolls 565 students in an area with several nearby elementary schools. In 2025–2026, the school exceeded California and the La Habra City Elementary district in ELA, math, and science proficiency. Its clearest advantage is math: 54% of students were proficient, 16 percentage points above the state and 18 points above the district.
Fifth grade is the school’s strongest showing compared with nearby schools, while fourth-grade ELA is a relative weak spot. In grade 5, ELA proficiency was 70%, behind only Laguna Road Elementary, Meadow Green Elementary, and Sunset Lane Elementary among the 11 schools compared. In grade 4, Las Positas’s ELA rate was 48%, below six nearby schools, including El Cerrito Elementary. Its grade 5 ELA result was 70%, compared with 49% in grade 3 and 48% in grade 4. Across grade-matched results, it generally placed around the middle of the local group.
Results have improved over time: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, proficiency rose 13 percentage points in ELA, 6 in math, and 6 in science. Chronic absenteeism fell 24 points, from 35% to 11%, now below the district’s 12% and California’s 18%. SchoolDigger rates Las Positas four stars at the 74th percentile, fourth among 11 nearby schools; its student-teacher ratio is 24.5, close to the nearby average. In 2024–2025, 76% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a 61% nearby-school average. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school serves Special Education Students rose from the 31st percentile in 2022–2023 to the 74th in 2025–2026. Its ranking for how well it serves White Students was at the 14th percentile in 2023–2024, versus the school’s overall 64th percentile that year; only one year is reported for this group.
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