Dublin Elementary, Dublin CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Dublin Elementary

Dublin Elementary sits on Vomac Road in one of the most actively growing corners of the East Bay. It serves kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in Dublin Unified, and its enrollment places it comfortably in the range you would expect for a suburban elementary school in a fast-growing district.

On the state's CAASPP assessments, the school's tested grades show solid results. Across third through fifth grade, math proficiency runs well above the state midpoint at every grade level, with fourth grade reaching particularly strong marks. English language arts proficiency is similarly above average statewide, with fifth grade performing the strongest of the three tested years. Fifth-grade science, measured by the CAST, comes in above the state average as well, though it is the softer of the three subjects here. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile relative to districts in Alameda County, which is the comparison set the data supports. Trend data covers only the current year, so there is no multi-year trajectory available to characterize improvement or change over time.

The student body reflects Dublin's demographic reality as a destination city for tech-adjacent professionals. Asian students make up the largest share of enrollment, followed by white students, students of two or more races, and Hispanic students, with smaller populations in other groups. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is quite low, well below what you would typically find across California elementary schools, which tells you something about the economic character of the neighborhood this school draws from. IEP rates and English learner counts were not available in the data.

Dublin itself is a place in active construction. It has grown faster than almost any other California city over the past two decades and has not stopped. The eastern and central residential communities, where master-planned subdivisions continue to add homes, produce the kind of enrollment pressure that prompted the district to build a second high school, Emerald High, which publicly opened on its own campus in 2024 with full completion expected in the 2026-2027 school year. A voter-approved general obligation bond underpins those capital projects and carries a property-tax obligation worth understanding if you are buying here. The school board's decision in mid-2024 not to place an additional bond on the November ballot, after a close vote and community disagreement over how costs should be split between east and west Dublin residents, signals that facility funding will likely remain a recurring conversation.

More immediately relevant for families with children at the elementary level: a teacher strike in spring 2026 concluded with a contract that reduces class sizes by one to two students per grade across TK-5, lowers specialist caseloads, and keeps elementary counselors at every K-5 site through the end of the contract period. That is a material change to daily school conditions.

Housing near the school is priced substantially above both the California and national medians. The estimated monthly carrying cost for a typical home in this zip code runs very high relative to most incomes, and the data shows rents trending slightly upward year over year while home values have pulled back modestly from recent peaks. Renters would be directing a large share of household income toward housing. Two BART stations serve Dublin, connecting the city to the broader East Bay, and the city has both a planned walkable downtown area and a largely auto-oriented suburban fabric, so access to school and services depends on where within Dublin you live.

Program-level information for Dublin Elementary specifically was not available in the data, so families curious about enrichment, gifted services, or intervention programs would want to ask the school directly.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 378%

School 78% · District 81% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 482%

School 82% · District 82%

▲ 45 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 572%

School 72% · District 75% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 372%

School 72% · District 74% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 472%

School 72% · District 78% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 581%

School 81% · District 81% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Science

Grade 565%

School 65% · District 68% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 37 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

This schoolDublin Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income52%Higher-income76%24 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income63%Higher-income73%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income68%Higher-income84%16 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income56%Higher-income82%27 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income75%Higher-income83%8 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income50%Higher-income77%27 pp gap