Summary:
Zip code 92257 has one elementary school, Grace Smith Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 4 with 65 students in Calipatria Unified. With no other elementary schools in the local list, families cannot compare schools within the ZIP code. The most important finding is that in 2025–2026, Grace Smith’s all-grades proficiency was well below state rates, especially in ELA: 13% compared with 49% statewide, a 36-point gap.
Grace Smith Elementary is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school group, so the most useful comparisons are with the district and state. Its all-grades math proficiency was 22%, 17 points below the state rate; ELA was 13%, 36 points below. Grade 4 is a relative bright spot compared with the district: ELA was 17%, just 1 point below the district, and math was 25%, 4 points above. However, both grade 4 results remained below state rates, by 29 points in ELA and 17 points in math. Grade 3 results were lower than grade 4 in both subjects.
Results declined year over year while state rates edged up: Grace Smith’s ELA proficiency fell 23 points, from 36% in 2024–2025 to 13% in 2025–2026, and math fell 14 points, from 36% to 22%. The school’s gaps with the state widened by 23 points in ELA and 15 points in math. SchoolDigger’s ranking also fell, from the 61st percentile in 2023–2024 to the 5th in 2025–2026. Chronic absenteeism was 31%, above the district’s 24% and the state’s 18%. For context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 13:1 and 92% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; the state provides free meals to all students through Community Eligibility. These figures offer context, not an explanation for results, and this one-school list cannot show how they compare across local schools.
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