Summary:
ZIP code 62994 has two schools in Elverado Intermediate School (grades 3–5) and Elverado Junior High School (grades 6–8), both part of Elverado CUSD 196. The most important area-wide concern is mathematics: in 2025–2026, the schools’ equal-weight average was 27%, compared with 40% statewide, a 12-point gap. Junior High’s reported all-grades result was especially low at 20%, about 20 points below the state; Intermediate was at 35%, about 5 points below. ELA results were closer to the state: the schools’ equal-weight average was 55%, versus 56% statewide, about 1 point lower.
Elverado Intermediate School stands out in grade 4 ELA, where 68% were proficient, 12 points above the state’s 56%; its grade 5 Science result was also stronger than the state, 54% versus 48%, a 6-point advantage. Elverado Junior High School was close to the state in grade 8 ELA, at 62% compared with 63%, but grade 8 Science was a weaker result: 45% versus 52%, or 7 points below. These grade-specific results highlight different strengths rather than a single school being stronger in every subject.
Recent results moved in different directions. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Intermediate ELA rose 26 points, while Junior High ELA fell 28 points; mathematics improved at both schools, by 5 points at Intermediate and 6 at Junior High, but remained below the state. SchoolDigger rankings also diverged: Intermediate moved from the 35th to the 47th percentile, while Junior High shifted from the 65th to the 44th. For 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible was 67% at Intermediate and 68% at Junior High; student-teacher ratios were similar, at 9.5 and 9.4, and enrollment was 75 and 69. Because the schools serve different grade spans, all-grades comparisons are descriptive rather than same-grade comparisons; some Junior High grade-level mathematics results are suppressed by the state.
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