Summary:
Four schools serve ZIP code 95627, from kindergarten through grade 12: Esparto Elementary (K–5), Esparto Middle (6–8), Esparto High (9–12), and Madison Community High (9–12); enrollment totals 992, ranging from 10 to 454 students. Among the three schools with 2025–2026 proficiency results, average performance was 32% in English language arts (ELA), 14% in math, and 17% in science, versus statewide rates of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The average gaps widened from the prior year by 5 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 7 in science. The most important finding is that proficiency trails the state in every subject, with the largest gap in math.
Esparto High stands out in ELA at 42%, 14 points above the next-highest result at Esparto Middle (28%), though still 7 points below the state. Esparto Middle leads in math at 16% and narrowly leads science at 18%; its math result is 3 points above the lowest, at Esparto High (13%). Esparto Elementary has the lowest ELA result (24%) and science result (17%). Attendance also varies sharply: chronic absenteeism is 11% at Middle, 25% at High, and 82% at Madison, compared with 18% statewide. High reports a 100% graduation rate, versus 88% statewide.
Results changed in different directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Esparto Elementary improved by 8 points in ELA, 1 in math, and 7 in science, while Esparto Middle declined by 14 in ELA, 1 in math, and 21 in science. Esparto High fell 9 points in ELA and 6 in math but gained 4 in science. SchoolDigger ranks High at the 31st percentile, Middle at the 17th, and Elementary at the 8th. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 74% at Elementary, 81% at High and Middle, and 70% at Madison; student–teacher ratios ranged from 19.1 at High to 22.8 at Middle. These figures describe context, not causes. Because the schools serve different grade spans and Madison’s 2025–2026 proficiency results are suppressed, all-grades results are not same-grade comparisons and Madison cannot be compared academically.
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