Summary
Vejar Elementary in Pomona, California, serves grades K–8 and has 741 students, the largest enrollment among the 10 nearby schools compared; it is part of Pomona Unified. In 2025–2026, about 36% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 23% in math and 22% in science, with all three results below state and district averages. The biggest takeaway is that these schoolwide figures hide wide differences by grade: grade 7 ELA was a relative bright spot, while grade 3 ELA and grade 8 performance were much weaker.
Compared with nearby schools, ELA is Vejar’s strongest subject and math its weakest: its ELA proficiency was 36%, above the nearby-school average of 33%, while math was 23%, just below the nearby average of 24%; science was 22%, close to the nearby average of 22%. Vejar’s ELA rate was fourth among 11 schools including itself, and its math rate was seventh. Still, all three subjects fell below both state and district averages. Grade-level results vary sharply: grade 7 ELA proficiency was 53%, above the state’s 51% and district’s 40%, while grade 3 ELA was 15%, below the state’s 44% and district’s 31%. In grade 8 ELA, Vejar had 30% proficiency compared with 69% at nearby Lexington Elementary.
Science has improved most over time, rising 10 percentage points from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, while ELA and math changed little; the science gap with the state narrowed, but Vejar remained below the state in every subject. Attendance also improved: chronic absenteeism fell 21 points from 2021–2022 to 2025–2026, reaching 16%, below the state’s 18% and district’s 24%. SchoolDigger ranks Vejar at the 26th percentile statewide, with 1 star; the district is at the 30th percentile with 2 stars. For context, Vejar’s 2024–2025 free/reduced-lunch-eligible rate was 95%, and its student-teacher ratio was 21.7, near the nearby-school average of 21.3. SchoolDigger’s subgroup rankings differ notably: Special Education Students ranked at the 7th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with Vejar overall at the 26th percentile; Homeless Students ranked at the 61st percentile in 2024–2025, versus the school’s overall 26th percentile that year. These are rankings, not explanations for the differences.
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