Summary:
Zip code 93040 has one listed elementary school, Piru Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 272 students, so families have no other school in this list to compare it with. In 2025–2026, Piru’s all-grades proficiency was 45% in English language arts, 34% in math, and 19% in science. It scored above Fillmore Unified in all three subjects, but its science result was nearly level with the district and well below California’s. The clearest remaining concern is science: Piru was 17 percentage points below the state, compared with 4 points below in ELA and 5 in math.
Piru is both the top and bottom school in the local list simply because it is the only one; that does not show how it compares with nearby schools outside the list. Against the district, its largest all-grades advantage was in math, at 14 percentage points, closely followed by 14 points in ELA; in science, the advantage was less than 1 point. Grade-level results show a more mixed picture: grade 5 ELA reached 50%, 1 point above the state and 14 points above the district, while grade 5 math was 17%, 20 points below the state and 7 below the district. Grade 5 math is therefore a particular weak spot, not a pattern shared by grade 5 ELA.
Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 3 percentage points, math 12, and science 9, with the gap to California narrowing in each subject. SchoolDigger’s ranking also improved, from 4,631 of 5,869 schools (21st percentile, 1 star) in 2023–2024 to 3,163 of 5,804 (46th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 22.2 in 2024–2025 and 77% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 16% and the state’s 18%.
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