Summary
August Schilling Elementary serves 344 students in kindergarten through grade 5 in Newark, California, within Newark Unified. In 2025–2026, 19% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 12% in math, and 24% in science; each result was below the state and district. The clearest concern is how far the school’s ELA and math results trail nearby K–5 schools: they were below every nearby peer with scores that year.
Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, district, and nearby schools, though it remains behind most peers. Its 24% proficiency was 12 points below the state and 9 points below the district; among nearby schools, it was second-lowest, just above Cabrillo Elementary. ELA and math were 30 and 26 points below state results, and 30 and 28 points below district results. The eight nearby K–5 schools with scores averaged 56% in ELA, 54% in math, and 48% in science—37, 42, and 24 points above August Schilling, respectively.
Results over time are mixed: math fell 12 points, from 24% in 2022–2023 to 12% in 2025–2026, while ELA declined 2 points, from 21% to 19%. Science improved by 10 points, from 14% to 24%, including an 11-point rise in the latest year. SchoolDigger ranked the school 5,326th of 5,804 in 2025–2026, at the 8th percentile with 0 stars. Its student–teacher ratio was a relatively low 20.2 in 2024–2025, and 56% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. A notable change in SchoolDigger’s measure of how well the school serves English Language Learner students: its statewide percentile fell from 48 in 2022–2023 to 3 in 2023–2024, while the overall percentile moved from 18 to 9.
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