Summary:
Zip code 93610 has nine schools—four labeled elementary, three middle and two high—serving grades from K–1 through 12. Some labels do not match the grades served: Fairmead Elementary serves grades 4–6 and Dairyland Elementary serves grades 4–8, so comparing schools serving the same grade gives parents a clearer picture. Most important, Dairyland led the other schools in every shared grade from 4 through 8 in both ELA and math.
Alview Elementary and Dairyland have the strongest all-grades ELA and math results: Alview scored 56% in ELA and 51% in math, while Dairyland scored 53% and 44%; both subjects were above state results at both schools. Dairyland’s 35% in science was close to the state’s 36%. They were the only schools above state in both ELA and math. At the other end, Gateway High (Continuation) had the lowest reported results: 21% in ELA, 0% in math and 6% in science. Across schools, the highest-to-lowest spread was 35 points in ELA, 51 in math and 29 in science. High-school outcomes also differ: Chowchilla Union High graduated 97% of students, above the state’s 88%, despite below-state test scores; Gateway’s graduation rate was 72%, and chronic absenteeism was 72%, compared with 18% statewide.
Area-wide unweighted score averages improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 2 points in ELA, 2 in math and 5 in science, but remained below state averages; the gaps narrowed by 2, 1 and 1 points, respectively. SchoolDigger ranked Dairyland in the 67th percentile in 2025–2026, the highest among schools with ranking histories; Gateway rose from the 0th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 13th. As context, free/reduced lunch eligible rates in 2024–2025 were 56% at Alview and 58% at Dairyland, compared with 92% at Gateway and 93% at Merle L. Fuller Elementary; these figures describe school context, not the cause of results. Attendance is another point of difference: Dairyland’s chronic absenteeism was 6%, while Alview’s was 18%.
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