Cutler Elementary, Cutler CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Cutler Elementary

Cutler Elementary serves kindergarten through fifth grade in Cutler, a small unincorporated farm town in Tulare County's San Joaquin Valley. The school sits in an overwhelmingly Latino, agricultural working-class community where more than half of families work in field or packing-house jobs tied to citrus, grapes, dairy, and peaches. Most residents rent rather than own. The school's enrollment is small for its grade band, distributed across six grades with relatively even class sizes. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the area's economic profile.

Academic performance at Cutler Elementary sits below proficiency benchmarks. In mathematics, students in third grade reached a proficiency rate in the middle range, fourth grade showed notably weaker results, and fifth grade proficiency was substantially lower. English language arts showed a similar pattern: third and fourth grades clustered around the lower-to-middle range, while fifth grade dropped considerably. Science proficiency at fifth grade was very low. Overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades positions the school above the midpoint among districts in Tulare County, which signals that while this school faces real academic challenges, some peers in the county perform even more poorly. The school has only one year of current data available, so trends cannot be assessed. Parents may want to look into the school's approach to addressing these performance gaps and what support systems exist for struggling learners.

The school does not report data on English learner status or students with IEPs, so the composition of the student population in those categories is not available. Housing in the Cutler area is modestly valued relative to California state benchmarks, making homeownership more accessible than in many parts of the state, though the region still sits well above national housing costs.

The Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District, which serves Cutler Elementary, has invested in recent facilities improvements: new early-learning buildings at an elementary school campus, a new high school auditorium, and a regional aquatics complex that opened in fall 2025. The district is the area's major employer. A local library branch serves both Cutler and neighboring Orosi, and the district buses students across a large geographic area to eight school sites.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 54% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 433%

School 33% · District 34% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 517%

School 17% · District 35% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 43% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 444%

School 44% · District 48% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 42% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Science

Grade 513%

School 13% · District 17% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

This schoolCutler-Orosi Joint 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.