Clovis Elementary, Clovis CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Clovis Elementary

Clovis Elementary serves kindergarten through sixth grade in Clovis, a mid-sized, fast-growing city in eastern Fresno County known for its family-oriented suburban neighborhoods and historic Old Town district. The school sits in a community anchored by the Clovis Unified School District, one of the largest employers and the region's defining institution.

The school enrolls a school-sized group of students drawn from the surrounding residential area. Roughly two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting broader economic diversity in the enrollment. The student body is roughly split between Hispanic and white students, with smaller populations of Asian, multiracial, and other groups. Specific rates for English learners and students with disabilities were not available in the data.

On California's CAASPP assessments administered in the most recent year, Clovis Elementary shows a pattern of proficiency that is solid in the earlier grades and softens in the upper grades. In third grade, proficiency runs in the low-to-mid seventies in both English language arts and math. By fourth grade, ELA proficiency dips to the low sixties while math drops notably to the mid-fifties. Fifth and sixth grade show proficiency in the mid-forties to low sixties across both subjects, with the decline most pronounced in math. In fifth-grade science, about half the students met proficiency. Across all tested grades and subjects, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among districts in Fresno County, a meaningful measure of academic strength relative to local peers.

The upward-grades decline in proficiency is a pattern worth understanding. Parents may want to look into further with the school what instructional approaches support transitions in fourth and fifth grade, where performance gaps appear most acute, and what interventions or supports the school offers to strengthen math and reading in those critical years.

Clovis Elementary operates in a city that is actively growing and reshaping itself. Clovis Unified recently opened a major new educational complex in southeast Clovis housing Sanchez Intermediate and the phasing Clovis South High School, expanding capacity for the district's swiftly rising enrollment. The district also redrew attendance boundaries effective in the 2025-26 school year, a change that directly affects which schools feed from which residential areas. Parents considering schools in Clovis should confirm how current boundary zones align with their address and understand which secondary schools this elementary feeds into under the new map.

At the district level, voters approved a substantial school facilities bond in November 2024 that funds continued infrastructure without raising property tax rates. Housing in the Clovis area is moderately affordable relative to California statewide, with home values and rents that reflect steady growth and a strong rental market. The community's economy centers on healthcare, education, retail, and professional services, anchored by the school district itself plus employers like Clovis Community Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente.

For families drawn to Clovis, Clovis Elementary represents a neighborhood school in a growing suburban district with measurably strong academic standing locally. The grade-band pattern of results suggests solid early-grades instruction with room for strengthening upper-elementary reading and math. The wider district context is one of significant capacity building and active boundary management, so families should weigh both the school and the district's structural changes as they make housing and enrollment decisions.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 374%

School 74% · District 64% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 34 pts above county median

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 58% · ▼ 2 pts below district

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

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 50% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 648%

School 48% · District 54% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 372%

School 72% · District 63% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 464%

School 64% · District 63% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 65% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 663%

School 63% · District 65% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Science

Grade 551%

School 51% · District 48% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

This schoolClovis 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-income68%Higher-income80%12 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income55%Higher-income81%25 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income44%Higher-income77%34 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income57%Higher-income72%15 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income71%Higher-income80%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income44%Higher-income78%34 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income33%Higher-income59%25 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income45%Higher-income51%6 pp gap