Summary
Coyote Hills Elementary serves 440 students in grades K–5 in Newark, California, within Newark Unified. Its latest results show math close to the state average, but English language arts (ELA) and science are lower. The clearest academic concern is its standing among nearby K–5 schools: it ranks third-lowest of the eight with comparable results in each tested subject; only August Schilling Elementary and Cabrillo Elementary scored lower.
Math is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while ELA is its largest gap compared with nearby schools. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 36% in ELA, 38% in math, and 31% in science. Those results were 14, 1, and 5 percentage points below state levels, respectively; compared with nearby-school averages of 55%, 52%, and 45%, they were lower by 19, 14, and 14 points. Results were also below Newark Unified by 13 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 2 in science. Chronic absenteeism improved sharply, from 40% to 20% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, but remained above the district’s 15% and the state’s 18%; it was the highest rate among nearby schools listed for that year, ahead of Oliveira Elementary at 17%.
Science has made the clearest multi-year progress: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, it rose 8 percentage points, and its gap to the state narrowed by 2 points. ELA rose 2 points and math 3, but their gaps to the state widened slightly overall. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking has stayed around the 43rd percentile over the past four years; in 2025–2026, the school ranked 3,299 of 5,804 schools and received 2 stars. Contextually, its 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 25.8, compared with a nearby average of 24.6, and 52% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a nearby average of 36%. SchoolDigger’s ranking for how well the school serves Low Socio Economic Status Students rose from the 25th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 42nd in 2025–2026. For English Language Learner Students, it reached the 70th percentile in 2023–2024, compared with the school’s overall 43rd percentile that year.
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