Monarch Learning Center District

The Monarch Learning Center District in Redding, California has only one school, Monarch Learning Center, which serves grades K-8 with an enrollment of 85 students. This elementary public charter school has consistently ranked in the bottom 5% of California elementary schools, with a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating poor overall performance.

Monarch Learning Center's academic proficiency rates on standardized assessments are significantly lower than the statewide averages across all grade levels and subject areas. For example, in 2023-2024, the school's proficiency rate in English Language Arts/Literacy was 24.07%, compared to the statewide average of 47.04%, and in Mathematics, the proficiency rate was 11.32%, compared to the statewide average of 35.54%. The school's science proficiency rates on the California Science Test (CAST) were also low, with an end-of-course proficiency rate of 11.11% compared to the statewide average of 30.7%.

Despite having a lower-than-average chronic absenteeism rate of 1.1%, Monarch Learning Center faces other challenges, such as a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch (69.41%) and a relatively high student-teacher ratio of 17:1. These socioeconomic factors suggest that the school may be serving a population of students with greater educational needs and fewer resources to support their learning, which could contribute to the school's consistently low performance.