Schools in Zip Code 96038

Zip code 96038 has one listed school, Grenada Elementary, serving kindergarten through eighth grade with 210 students, so the area’s results describe this school alone. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was 38% in English Language Arts (ELA), 23% in math, and 35% in science, compared with California’s 49%, 38%, and 36%. The most important finding is that the school was below the state in all three subjects, with the largest gap in math.

There are no other listed schools to identify as higher- or lower-performing, so the useful comparison is with the state and across grades at Grenada. Science was closest to the state average, trailing by 1 point; ELA was 12 points lower and math 15 points lower. Grade-level results vary considerably: sixth grade had 12% proficiency in ELA and 4% in math, while fifth-grade ELA was 48% and third-grade math was 50%. Sixth grade was 36 points below its state ELA comparison and 33 points below in math; third-grade math was 3 points above its state comparison. Attendance is a positive contrast: chronic absenteeism was 8% at Grenada versus 18% statewide, 10 points lower.

Results changed in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell by 4 percentage points, math rose by 1 point, and science climbed by 18 points. Science’s gap with the state narrowed substantially, while ELA and math remained behind; the science improvement does not mean achievement rose across every subject. SchoolDigger gives Grenada 2 stars and places it at the 41st percentile for 2025–2026; its percentile was 38th in 2023–2024 and 33rd in 2024–2025, so the latest standing is 3 points higher than the earliest. The student–teacher ratio was 19:1, and 48% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these are context measures, not explanations for test results.