Summary:
There is one listed elementary school in Red Bud CUSD 132: Red Bud Elementary School, serving grades PK–8 with 582 students. In 2025–2026, 55% of students met expectations in English language arts (ELA), compared with 56% statewide; in math, 34% met expectations, compared with 40% statewide. Chronic absenteeism was 8%, well below the state’s 24%. The clearest academic concern is math: Red Bud was 6 percentage points below the state in math, versus 1 point below in ELA.
There are no other listed schools to compare, so the most useful standouts are differences across Red Bud’s grades. Grade 6 ELA was a bright spot: 64% met expectations, 5 points above the state. Grade 3 math also stood out, at 55%, 6 points above the state. Results were weaker in grade 7 ELA, where 47% met expectations—10 points below the state—and grade 5 science, at 34%, 14 points below the state. Science looked quite different in grade 8: 55% met expectations, 4 points above the state.
Recent results shifted downward relative to the state in both all-grades IAR subjects. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Red Bud’s ELA result fell 6 points while the state’s rose 3; in math, Red Bud fell 2 points while the state rose 1. Science varied by grade: grade 5 fell 5 points, while grade 8 rose 8. SchoolDigger’s ranking also declined, from the 68th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 37th in 2025–2026, a drop of 31 percentile points. As context, 49% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 13.3 that year.
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