Summary
Christa McAuliffe Elementary serves 476 students in grades K–5 in Oxnard, a community with several nearby schools for comparison. In 2025–26, its proficiency rates were higher than the Oxnard district averages in ELA, math and science, but lower than California’s in all three. The most important takeaway is that students are doing better than district averages, yet the school still has a substantial gap to the state—particularly in math.
Science is the school’s relative strength, while math is its weakest subject compared with California and nearby schools. All-grade proficiency was 27% in science, 38% in ELA and 27% in math; these results were about level with nearby-school averages, with science slightly above and math slightly below. Compared with the state, Christa was 9 percentage points lower in science, 12 lower in ELA and 11 lower in math. It did exceed district averages by about 4 points in each subject. Fifth-grade math is a sharper concern: 19% of students were proficient, below the district’s 21% and state’s 37%. By contrast, fourth-grade ELA was 42%, 8 points above the district and only 4 below the state; eight of ten nearby schools had lower results.
Recent results improved across all three subjects, but the longer-term picture is mixed: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA rose 5 percentage points, math fell 3 points, and science rose less than 1 point. The school’s SchoolDigger standing rose from the 29th to the 34th percentile year over year, earning 2 stars, though it remains below its 40th-percentile standing in 2022–23. SchoolDigger’s ranking for homeless students climbed sharply, from the 6th percentile in 2024–25 to the 57th in 2025–26, compared with the school’s overall 34th percentile. Chronic absenteeism also fell substantially, from 45% in 2021–22 to 25% in 2025–26, but remained about 7 points above the district and state. In 2024–25, the student-teacher ratio was 19.4, and 83% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible.
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