Summary:
El Paso-Gridley CUSD 11 includes four schools serving children from elementary school through high school: two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. The supplied data include test results for Centennial School, EPG Middle School and El Paso-Gridley High School, but not for Jefferson Park School. Across the 23 reported grade-and-subject comparisons, 22 results were above the corresponding state figure—an encouraging overall pattern, though performance varies by grade and subject.
The high school stands out on ACT math: 56% were proficient, compared with 40% statewide, a 16-point lead; its ELA and science results were also above state figures by 7 and 6 points. Centennial’s strongest result was math, at 54% versus 40% statewide, a 15-point lead. EPG Middle School had a strong overall ELA result of 69%, compared with 56% statewide, and particularly high grade 5 ELA and science results, each more than 20 points above the state. Its grade 5 math was the one below-state comparison: 31% versus 36%, a 5-point gap. SchoolDigger gave the high school 4 stars and Centennial and the middle school 3 stars in 2025–26; Jefferson Park has no test results in the supplied data.
Recent results are mixed rather than uniformly rising: the average change in comparable school-to-state gaps was less than 1 point over two years. Centennial math proficiency rose 10 points, while high-school ACT results fell 9 points in ELA, 2 in math and 12 in science. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile rankings also moved in different directions: Centennial rose from 57 to 61, while the middle school fell from 70 to 67 and the high school from 91 to 79. Student–teacher ratios were similar, from 12.4 to 13.6, averaging 12.9. Free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25 ranged from 33% to 40%; these are context, not an explanation of school results. The high school also had the area’s highest chronic absenteeism rate, 11% versus 4%–9% at the other schools, yet remained below the 24% state rate and had a 96% graduation rate, compared with 90% statewide.
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