Summary
In Irvine, California, Woodbury Elementary is a K–6 school in Irvine Unified serving 1,095 students, the largest enrollment among 10 nearby schools. The clearest academic concern is fifth grade: students scored 67% proficient in ELA and 52% in math, respectively 8 and 13 percentage points below the school’s district results. Woodbury was the lowest of seven nearby K–6 schools in fifth-grade ELA and second-lowest in math, making fifth grade the most important area for families to ask about.
Woodbury is well above California overall, but sits around the middle of its closest district peers. Schoolwide proficiency was 74% in ELA, 68% in math and 58% in science—25, 30 and 22 points above state rates. Compared with the six nearby K–6 schools, Woodbury was below their averages in all three subjects and ranked fifth of seven in each; it was also 3 points below the district in math and 7 below in science, while essentially even in ELA. Fourth grade is a bright spot: Woodbury’s ELA rate of 83% was the second-highest among those peers, just behind Santiago Hills Elementary.
Results have softened over time, especially in science: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, science fell 9 points to 58%, math fell 3 points to 68%, and ELA was nearly flat at 74%; meanwhile, Woodbury went from slightly above to below the district in math and science. SchoolDigger ranked Woodbury at the 89th statewide percentile, 634 of 5,804, with four stars in 2025–2026. Its student–teacher ratio was 30.5 in 2024–2025, and 18% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. SchoolDigger’s statewide measure of how effectively the school serves Asian students put the group at the 50th percentile, compared with 89 overall. For students with low socioeconomic status, the percentile fell from 98 in 2023–2024 to 83 in 2025–2026, a 15-point decline.
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