Summary
Traver Elementary is a 235-student school serving kindergarten through grade 8 in Traver, a small community in California’s Central Valley. In 2025–2026, 39% of students were proficient in English Language Arts (ELA), 33% in math, and 7% in science. The most important concern is science: the result was 29 points below California’s, and lower than every nearby school with a reported result.
Math is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, but it does not put the school ahead of most nearby schools. ELA and math results exactly matched those at Traver Joint Elementary; compared with California, the school was 11 points lower in ELA and 5 points lower in math. Its ELA and math results were also about 7 points below nearby-school averages. It did exceed Goshen Elementary, Central Valley Home, and Kings River Elementary in both subjects. By grade, seventh grade was a bright spot: 63% were proficient in ELA and 42% in math, both above state results. Sixth-grade ELA was much weaker at 19%, while eighth-grade science was 4%, compared with 35% statewide.
Math has improved over time, rising 10 points from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, and its state gap narrowed from 12 points to 5. ELA rose 5 points, while science fell 11 points and its state gap widened from 13 to 29. SchoolDigger rated the school at the 21st percentile with 1 star in 2025–2026, down from the 31st percentile in 2023–2024. Its 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 21.3, and 72% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year, the fourth-lowest rate among nearby schools reporting the same measure. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking as a measure of how well the school serves English Language Learner Students fell from the 79th percentile in 2021–2022 to the 36th in 2023–2024. For Low Socio Economic Status Students, its ranking fell from the 39th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 18th in 2025–2026, compared with an overall school ranking of 21st that year. Nearby schools serve different grade spans, so comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.
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