Summary:
Zip code 95316 has three elementary schools: Denair Elementary Charter Academy serves kindergarten through grade 5, while Gratton Charter and Gratton Elementary serve kindergarten through grade 8; the clearest finding in the 2025–26 results is the sharp contrast between Gratton Charter’s strong results and Denair’s much lower ELA and math scores.
Gratton Charter stands out at the top: its all-grades proficiency was 70% in ELA, 66% in math and 52% in science, respectively 21, 28 and 16 percentage points above state results. It also outperformed Denair Elementary Charter Academy in ELA and math in every shared grade from 3 to 5, with gaps ranging from 40 to 49 points in ELA and 27 to 74 points in math. Denair was at the bottom in all-grades ELA and math, with 24% and 15% proficient—25 and 23 points below state results—and its science score of 16% was 20 points below state. Gratton Elementary had a mixed profile: 44% in ELA, 5 points below state, but 56% in math, 17 points above. Its grade-level results are not reported, so the shared-grade comparison is between the other two schools.
Recent results moved in different directions: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Gratton Charter gained 8 points in ELA and 5 in math, while Denair fell 3 points in ELA and 4 in math; science declined at both schools, by 6 points at Gratton Charter and 4 at Denair. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 rankings reflect the contrast: Gratton Charter ranked in the 77th percentile with 4 stars, while Denair ranked in the 9th percentile with 0 stars; their rankings had been 81st and 20th percentile, respectively, in 2023–24. School characteristics offer context, not an explanation for scores: in 2024–25, student-teacher ratios were 17.8 at Gratton Charter, 18.6 at Denair and 5.7 at Gratton Elementary, whose enrollment was 24. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 13%, 65% and 29%, respectively; Gratton Elementary’s math result is notably strong despite its below-state ELA result and lower ratio.
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