Summary:
ZIP code 95825 has three listed elementary schools, all serving kindergarten through grade five: Greer Elementary, Howe Avenue Elementary and Cottage Elementary. In 2025–26, their average proficiency was 16% in English language arts, 10% in math and 11% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38% and 36%. The school averages were about 33 percentage points below the state in ELA, 28 points below in math and 25 points below in science. The most important finding is that all three schools are far below state proficiency in every reported subject.
No one school leads in every subject: Cottage Elementary leads in ELA, with 19% proficient, while Greer Elementary leads in math at 14% and science at 16%. In math, Greer is 6 points above Howe Avenue Elementary, which has the lowest result at 7%; in science, Greer is 11 points above Howe Avenue, also the lowest at 5%. ELA results are close between Greer and Howe Avenue—15.0% and 15.3%—with Cottage ahead of both.
Recent changes are mixed: Greer improved in all three subjects, gaining 1 point in ELA, 2 in math and 5 in science; Howe Avenue gained 3 points in ELA but fell 1 point each in math and science; Cottage slipped 1 point in ELA and gained 0 points in math and 2 in science. SchoolDigger ranks all three in California’s bottom 3% for 2025–26; its rankings also show lower percentiles than in 2023–24: Greer moved from the 7th to the 3rd percentile, Howe Avenue from the 2nd to the 1st, and Cottage from the 4th to the 2nd. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 82% at Greer, 84% at Howe Avenue and 76% at Cottage; student–teacher ratios ranged from 23.9 at Howe Avenue to 26.4 at Cottage. These figures describe school differences but do not explain them.
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