Summary
Helen L. Dollahan Elementary serves 608 students in kindergarten through fifth grade in Rialto, within Rialto Unified. Its results vary sharply by grade: third graders performed relatively well, with 45% proficient in English language arts (ELA), above the state and district, while fourth- and fifth-grade math proficiency was 19% and 16%. The most important concern is this divide: stronger third-grade results give way to much weaker performance in the upper grades, especially in math.
Compared with nearby schools, science is Dollahan’s clearest strength: 26% were proficient, the highest result among the 10 nearby schools, though still below the state’s 36% and the district’s 28%. ELA proficiency was 35%, about 1 point above the nearby-school average, but 14 points below the state and 10 below the district. Math was 25%, slightly below the nearby average and district, and 14 points below the state. Third-grade ELA also ranked second among Dollahan and nearby schools, behind Sam V. Curtis Elementary. Attendance is a positive: chronic absenteeism was 14%, below the state’s 18% and district’s 22%, and lower than at every nearby school.
Since 2022–23, proficiency has increased by 2 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 7 in science, although recent ELA and math results fell from their prior-year peaks. The state gap widened in ELA, from 13.6 to 14.3 points, and in math, from 12 to 14 points. SchoolDigger rated Dollahan in the 29th percentile with 1 star in 2025–26, down from the 40th percentile and 2 stars the year before; among Dollahan and nearby schools, it ranked fifth. In 2024–25, 82% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and the student-teacher ratio was 23.3. SchoolDigger’s relative effectiveness rankings for English Language Learner Students varied sharply: the school ranked in the 50th percentile in 2021–22, the 9th in 2022–23, and the 83rd in 2023–24—a 74-point swing.
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