Summary
In Valencia, California, North Park Elementary serves 441 students in kindergarten through sixth grade and is part of the Saugus Union School District. Its overall results are above California’s proficiency rates in English language arts, math and science, but performance varies by subject and grade. The clearest grade-level concern is fifth-grade math: 50% of students were proficient, 8 points below the district and 21 points below North Park’s third-grade result.
Compared with the state, the school is ahead in all three subjects: proficiency was 73% in English language arts, 66% in math and 49% in science, respectively 23, 28 and 13 points above state rates. Math is especially strong against the state, while science is the main comparative weakness: its rate was 9 points below the district and 12 points below the nearby-school average of 62%. Against nearby schools, North Park ranked sixth of 11 in both English language arts and math, and second-lowest in science. Fifth-grade math also stands out against the district: North Park was at 50%, compared with 58% districtwide, though still above the state’s 37%.
Across the four supplied years, proficiency rose overall: by 15 points in English language arts, 19 in math and 12 in science. Recent results were uneven, however: science fell 15 points in the latest year, English language arts fell 4, and math edged up 1. SchoolDigger gives North Park 4 stars and ranks it 727 of 5,804 schools, at the 87th statewide percentile; its percentile rose from 69 in 2018–19, reached 90 in 2024–25, then declined. The 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 25.9, close to the nearby average of 26.4. In 2024–25, 25.4% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, about 5 points below the nearby average. SchoolDigger’s effectiveness ranking for White students was 63rd percentile in 2023–24 versus 85th overall; it rose to 83rd the next year, then fell to 73rd in 2025–26, while the overall ranking was 87th.
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