Summary:
The Downtown Value Elementary School is the sole public charter school serving grades K-8 in the Downtown Value District. With a total enrollment of 437 students, the school faces significant challenges, including consistently low academic performance, high poverty rates, and elevated chronic absenteeism.
The school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are all substantially lower than the state-wide averages for California. For example, in the 2023-2024 school year, the school's ELA proficiency rate was 28.42%, compared to the state average of 47.04%. Similarly, the school's Mathematics proficiency rate was 15.86%, compared to the state average of 35.54%. Additionally, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 19.4% in the 2022-2023 school year was higher than the state-wide average.
These factors may be interrelated, as the school serves a high-poverty population, with 68.65% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch in the 2022-2023 school year. The school's relatively high student-teacher ratio of 24.5 to 1 in the 2022-2023 school year may also contribute to the challenges the school faces in improving student outcomes. Overall, the data suggests that the Downtown Value Elementary School requires a comprehensive approach to address the systemic issues impacting student performance and well-being.
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