Summary:
The Pixley Union Elementary School District in California contains a single elementary school, Pixley Elementary. This school has consistently ranked in the bottom half of California elementary schools, with significantly below-average performance on standardized tests across all subjects and grade levels. In the 2023-2024 school year, only 27.99% of Pixley Elementary students were proficient or better in English Language Arts/Literacy, compared to the state average of 47.04%. In mathematics, the school's proficiency rate was 26.32%, compared to the state average of 35.54%. Science proficiency rates were also low, with only 18.48% of students proficient or better, compared to the state average of 30.7%.
Pixley Elementary has an extremely high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 96.17% in the 2022-2023 school year, indicating that the majority of its student population comes from low-income families. The school's student-teacher ratio is 21.2, slightly higher than the state average. Additionally, Pixley Elementary had a concerning chronic absenteeism rate of 17.8% in the 2022-2023 school year, which can have a significant impact on student learning and academic achievement.
Overall, the data suggests that Pixley Elementary is a struggling school that is performing well below state averages across multiple metrics. The school's high poverty rates and chronic absenteeism may be contributing to its academic challenges, and it will likely require targeted interventions and support to improve student outcomes.
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