Summary:
Zip code 93261 has one listed elementary school, Richgrove Elementary, which serves kindergarten through grade 8 and has 477 students. There are no other listed schools for a local comparison, so the relevant benchmark is California. In 2025–26, Richgrove’s all-grade results were below the state average in English language arts, math and science, with the largest gap in science—30 percentage points.
Richgrove Elementary is both the only school in the area and, therefore, its top and bottom local performer; compared with California, it scored 25% versus 49% in ELA, 17% versus 38% in math, and 6% versus 36% in science. Math was its strongest subject relative to the state, with a 21-point gap, while the ELA gap was 24 points. Grade-level results vary: third-grade math was a relative bright spot at 41% versus 47% statewide, a 6-point gap, while fifth-grade math was 8%, 28 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism was notably lower than the state rate: 9% at Richgrove versus 18% statewide.
Results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26, especially in ELA, but the school remains below state results in every subject. Richgrove’s ELA rose 6 points, math 3 points and science 4 points; the average gap across the three subjects narrowed from 27 to 25 points, though the science gap barely changed, from 29.7 to 29.6 points. SchoolDigger’s school-rank history moved from the 9th percentile in 2023–24 to the 7th in 2024–25 and 11th in 2025–26; its district listing shows a rank of 928 out of 968, in the 4th percentile, with 0 stars. For context, in 2024–25 the school had an 18.2:1 student-teacher ratio, and 96% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible.
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