Summary:
Commerce has one elementary school, Alexander Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade and enrolling 447 students. With no other listed schools, families cannot compare schools within the area; the clearest benchmark is state results. Alexander’s 2025–26 proficiency was below the state in English Language Arts, mathematics, and science, and its gaps with the state widened in all three subjects compared with the prior year.
Alexander is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in the list because it is the only one. In 2025–26, 14% of students were proficient in ELA, 12% in mathematics, and 22% in science, compared with 26%, 25%, and 30% statewide. Science was its comparatively strongest subject against the state, with an 8-point gap; the ELA and mathematics gaps were 12 and 13 points. Mathematics stands out as the largest concern in the grade-level results: Alexander was 10% proficient in fourth grade and 8% in fifth grade, compared with 33% and 28% statewide. SchoolDigger ranks Alexander 529th of 626 schools statewide, in the 15th percentile, with one star.
Alexander’s results fell from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA declined from 20% to 14%, mathematics from 20% to 12%, and science from 28% to 22%. The state’s ELA and science results were unchanged, while mathematics fell from 26% to 25%, so Alexander’s state gaps grew from 6 to 12 points in ELA, 6 to 13 in mathematics, and 2 to 8 in science. One positive contrast is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 12% at Alexander, versus 14% in the Commerce district and 16% statewide. As context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 17.1 in 2024–25, and 88% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results.
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