Summary
West Park Charter Academy is a small alternative K–12 school in Fresno, California, serving 165 students. Its strongest subject is English language arts (ELA), while math and science results are very low. Most concerning, science proficiency was just 2% in 2025–2026, the lowest among the seven nearby schools in the same-year comparison, and it fell 8 percentage points from the prior year.
ELA is the school’s relative strength: 27% of students were proficient, close to the nearby-school average of 28% and 3 points above the West Park Elementary district, though 22 points below California. West Park ranked fourth among seven schools in that nearby ELA comparison. Math was much weaker at 7%—13 points below the nearby average, 5 below the district, and 31 below the state. Science was 2%, 4 points below the district and 34 below the state. Middle-grade math stands out as a concern: proficiency was 0% in grades 6 and 8 and 10% in grade 7. Nearby schools’ results vary, so their averages are comparison points rather than a shared standard.
Over four years, ELA fell 5 points, from 32% to 27%, while math was essentially flat, rising just 0.3 points from 6.8% to 7.1%. Science dropped 14 points, from 16% to 2%; its state gap widened from 14 to 34 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking is for the district, not the academy: it lists West Park Elementary 914th of 968 districts, in the 6th percentile, with zero stars. The academy’s student-teacher ratio was 17.9:1 in 2024–2025, and 84% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Attendance is a positive contrast: chronic absenteeism was 4%, compared with 17% in the district and 18% statewide. Graduation and dropout results are mixed: the 2025–2026 graduation rate was 75%, below the state’s 88%, while the dropout rate was 25%, above the state’s 8%.
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