Summary
Peres Elementary is a 538-student K–8 school in Richmond, part of West Contra Costa Unified. In 2025–26, about 8% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 6% in math, and 3% in science. Those results were below the district and California averages in every subject; for example, ELA proficiency was 26 percentage points below the district and 41 below the state. The central concern is that proficiency is very low across all three subjects, with math the weakest local result.
ELA is Peres’s strongest of the three subjects compared with nearby schools, but it still trails the nearby-school average: about 8% proficient at Peres versus 12% across nine same-district schools, placing Peres third-lowest among ten. Math is the clearest local weakness: about 6% were proficient, compared with an 11% nearby average, and Peres ranked lowest of the ten schools. Science was also near the bottom, at about 3% versus an 8% nearby average, second-lowest locally. Some grade-level results offer a more mixed picture: third-grade ELA was 16%, second-highest locally, behind Ford Elementary; grade 6 math was lowest among the ten schools with results. Chronic absenteeism is another concern: Peres’s 2025–26 rate was 45%, above the district’s 34% and state’s 18%, though below the nearby-school average of 50%; only Cesar E. Chavez Elementary had a lower rate.
Test results have not shown sustained improvement: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, proficiency fell from about 13% to 8% in ELA, 7% to 6% in math, and 7% to 3% in science, while the gaps with the state widened. SchoolDigger gave Peres 0 stars and a 1st-percentile statewide ranking in 2025–26; its overall ranking has remained at the 1st percentile in each supplied year since 2021–22. A contrasting signal is SchoolDigger’s 2023–24 statewide ranking for African American students: 50th percentile, rank 298 of 593, and 3 stars, compared with the school’s overall 1st percentile and 0 stars—a measure of how well the school serves that group. As context, 95% of Peres students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25, and its student–teacher ratio was 21.0 in 2024–25. Nearby schools often serve a different grade span, and grade-level results may reflect small cohorts.
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