Summary
Lathrop Elementary is a 1,000-student K–8 school in Lathrop, California, served by Manteca Unified; nearby schools in the supplied data also serve K–8 students. The main concern is low proficiency across subjects, especially math: in 2025–26, only 12% of students were proficient in math, the lowest result among the nine nearby schools.
Lathrop Elementary scored below the district, state, and nearby-school averages in ELA, math, and science. ELA proficiency was 26%, compared with 35% in the district, 49% statewide, and 38% at nearby schools on average; math was 12%, versus 23%, 38%, and 27%, respectively. Science was 12%, compared with 23% in the district, 36% statewide, and 23% at nearby schools on average. ELA was its closest subject to local results, while math was the largest shortfall. Results also vary by grade: third-grade ELA was 16%, the lowest nearby, while fifth- and sixth-grade ELA were stronger at 33% and 32%. Eighth-grade math was particularly weak at 3%, and eighth-grade science was 10%, also the lowest nearby.
Math has declined while the state has improved: Lathrop Elementary fell from 17% proficient in 2022–23 to 12% in 2025–26, while the state rose from 35% to 38%; the school-state gap widened by 9 percentage points. ELA fell from 28% to 26%, while science rose from 8% to 12%. SchoolDigger ranked the school 5,283rd of 5,804 statewide in 2025–26, at the 9th percentile with 0 stars; only Golden West Elementary ranked lower locally, at the 5th percentile. In 2024–25, the student-teacher ratio was 25.5, near the nearby average of 24.7, and 72% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, the highest share among nearby schools with the same measure and year. SchoolDigger’s English Language Learner ranking was stronger than its overall ranking in 2022–23—31st percentile versus 11th—but fell to the 16th percentile the following year.
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