Summary:
ZIP code 92040 has eight elementary schools spanning kindergarten through grade 8: most serve K–5, Riverview serves grades 2–5, and DREAM Academy serves K–8; six schools have 2025–2026 results, while Barona Charter’s latest supplied scores are from 2024–2025 and Winter Gardens has no supplied scores. The most important finding is that school results vary widely, so area averages can hide very different academic outcomes.
Riverview Elementary is the clear academic leader: its 2025–2026 proficiency was 67% in ELA, 59% in math and 52% in science, respectively 18, 21 and 16 percentage points above California. Its ELA result was also 27 points higher than the average of the other five schools with current scores. At the lower end, Lindo Park Elementary had the lowest ELA and math results, at 27% and 17%—23 and 22 points below the state—while Lemon Crest Elementary had the lowest science proficiency, 17%, or 19 points below California. DREAM Academy shows why grade-level detail matters: grade 3 math was 71%, 24 points above the state, while grade 4 ELA was 14%, 31 points below.
Across the same six schools, average math proficiency rose from 36% to 37% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while ELA was essentially unchanged at 45% and science rose from 34% to 35%; the group moved closer to the state in math, but its science average shifted from above to below the state. DREAM had the strongest school-level gains, up 7 points in ELA, 16 in math and 5 in science, while other schools had at least one subject decline. SchoolDigger’s rank history rose from the 80th to the 82nd percentile for Riverview, but fell from the 31st to the 16th for Lemon Crest and from the 88th to the 57th for DREAM. Context varies too: student–teacher ratios range from 14.3 at Barona Charter to 23.4 at Riverview, and all eight schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, ranging from 25% at Riverview to 73% at Lindo Park; these measures provide context, not an explanation for scores.
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