Summary:
This analysis covers seven public schools within the Turlock Unified School District in the 95382 zip code, serving students from elementary through high school in a community where many families face economic challenges.
Walnut Elementary Education Center stands out as the top performer, with significantly higher test scores in all subjects and an exceptionally low chronic absenteeism rate of just 4%. Other schools show more varied results; for example, John H. Pitman High has a very strong graduation rate of 95.6% but lower test proficiency, while Crowell Elementary and Walter M. Brown Elementary have the lowest academic scores in the group.
Key factors influencing school performance here include chronic absenteeism, which is much higher at most schools than at Walnut, and economic disadvantage. Interestingly, higher per-student spending at some schools does not correlate with better outcomes, and Walnut succeeds despite having the highest student-teacher ratio. For parents, the data highlights a district with one exceptional elementary school and a high school that successfully graduates students, but where academic performance, especially in math, lags behind state averages at most campuses.
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