Summary
In Moreno Valley, California, Butterfield Language Academy serves 963 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, a broader span than most nearby schools, which serve elementary grades only. Its 2025–2026 all-grades results were below state averages but above those in Moreno Valley Unified: Butterfield had 41% proficiency in English language arts (ELA), 31% in math, and 27% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%, and district results of 35%, 20%, and 20%. Most importantly, Butterfield ranked second among 11 nearby schools in all three subjects, behind only Bear Valley Elementary.
Results vary considerably by grade: sixth graders reached 60% in ELA and 40% in math, above state results of 48% and 37%, while fourth graders scored 29% in ELA and 20% in math, below state results of 46% and 42%. Spanish-assessment results are also uneven. Reading was 9%, near the state’s 8% and the district’s 10%; listening was 20%, below the state’s 24%, the district’s 27%, and all four nearby schools with results. Writing was 16%, below the state’s 17%, the district’s 18%, and each of those nearby schools. Attendance is a relative strength: chronic absenteeism was 16% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 18%, the district’s 25%, and nearby reported rates.
Science rose from 13% in 2022–2023 to 27% in 2025–2026, and math increased from 24% to 31%; ELA rose from 39% to 41% over those years but fell from 45% in 2024–2025. SchoolDigger ranked Butterfield in the 35th statewide percentile and gave it 2 stars in 2025–2026; the district ranked in the 15th percentile with 1 star. The student-teacher ratio was 24 in 2024–2025, close to the nearby average of 23.83. In 2024–2025, 88% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for Special Education Students was at the 58th percentile, compared with 35th overall, indicating a stronger relative showing for this group. Its English Language Learner Students ranking rose from the 16th percentile in 2021–2022 to the 43rd in 2023–2024.
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