Summary:
Zip code 93261 has one listed school, Richgrove Elementary, serving kindergarten through eighth grade; it enrolled 477 students and had a student–teacher ratio of 18.2 in 2024–2025. With no other listed schools, families cannot compare local schools against one another using these data. The clearest comparison is with California: in 2025–2026, Richgrove’s proficiency was lower than the state’s in ELA, math, and science, with the largest gap in science.
Richgrove is both the only school in the area list and, therefore, its only school at the top or bottom; its results show where strengths and challenges lie within the school. Math was its strongest all-grade subject relative to California: 17% proficient versus 38% statewide, a 21-percentage-point gap. Science was furthest behind, at 6% versus 36%, a 30-point gap; ELA was 25% versus 49%, a 24-point gap. The grade-level results were uneven: third-grade math was relatively close to the state, at 41% versus 47% (6 points lower), while fourth grade was a pronounced weak spot in both ELA—13% versus 46%, 33 points lower—and math—13% versus 42%, 29 points lower.
Scores rose in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA increased 6 percentage points, math 3, and science 4. The state gaps narrowed most in ELA, by 5 points, and in math by 2; science’s gap was nearly unchanged. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from the 7th percentile (5,474 of 5,857 schools) to the 11th percentile (5,154 of 5,804), and its rating rose from 0 to 1 star. Chronic absenteeism was 9% at Richgrove, matching its district and 10 percentage points below California’s 18%. As context, 96% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; Richgrove also had a student–teacher ratio of 18.2 that year.
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