Summary
Park Hill Elementary is a K–5 school in San Jacinto, California, serving 824 students. In 2025–2026, SchoolDigger ranked it 5,067th of 5,804 California schools, at the 13th percentile with 1 star; San Jacinto Unified was at the 27th percentile with 1 star. The central takeaway is that science is a relative bright spot, but Park Hill remains below state proficiency rates in every tested subject, with math showing the largest state gap.
Science is Park Hill’s strongest result against nearby schools: 23% of students were proficient, about 5 points above the nearby-school average, ranking third among the 10 schools. ELA proficiency was 27%, about 4 points below the nearby average and ranking seventh. Math was weakest locally: 15%, about 5 points below the nearby average, tied with Little Lake and near the bottom of the group. Compared with the district, Park Hill was lower by 7 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 1 in science. Its state gaps were larger: 22 points in ELA, 23 in math, and 13 in science. A grade-level bright spot is third-grade ELA, at 33%, while fifth-grade math was 8%.
Results have improved since 2022–2023: ELA rose 9 points, math 5, and science 9, while the gaps to the state narrowed by 6, 1, and 3 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s percentile also rose from 4 in 2023–2024 to 13 in 2025–2026, though Park Hill still ranked seventh among the 10 nearby schools. Context includes a 24.8 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, the highest in the nearby group, and 92% of students free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism fell from 47% in 2021–2022 to 26% in 2025–2022026, but remained 4 points above the district and 8 above the state. One notable subgroup trend in SchoolDigger’s measure of how well schools serve student groups: the English learner percentile fell from 19 in 2021–2022 to 2 in 2023–2024.
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