Ducor Union Elementary, Ducor CA

Original Research by School Decision on Ducor Union Elementary

Ducor Union Elementary is a K-8 public school serving a small, predominantly Hispanic farming community in rural Tulare County. The school's enrollment is roughly that typical for a one-room rural campus, spread across nine grade bands from kindergarten through eighth grade, with about two-thirds of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch.

The school's academic performance on state assessments is significantly below the county baseline. In English language arts across all tested grades, proficiency runs in the low- to mid-range, with the highest performance in fourth grade and the lowest in grades six and seven. Mathematics proficiency is weaker still, hovering in the low teens overall, with one grade recording no students proficient at all. Science proficiency, tested in grades five and eight, is similarly limited. The data available spans only the most recent school year, so trends are not visible; a parent may want to ask the school directly about performance in prior years or what academic supports are being deployed to strengthen these results.

The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with small numbers of white and multiracial students and a handful of others. English learner and special education enrollment counts were not reported in the data. The school operates in a distant rural setting, classified by federal locale coding as a rural, distant location. Ducor itself is a very small unincorporated farming community about forty miles north of Bakersfield, largely owner-occupied and agricultural in orientation, with a town core that observers describe as once active but now quiet. There is no meaningful commercial downtown; residents drive alone for most errands and work. The community is served by a single Tulare County transit route connecting to Porterville.

Housing in the 93218 zip code is modest in value and relatively affordable, well below the state benchmark. The local economy is dominated by agricultural work—citrus farming principally—and the school district itself is the community's main public-sector employer.

In November 2024, the district placed a general obligation bond on the ballot to fund campus modernization, renovation, and expansion, including new transitional kindergarten classrooms. Voters rejected the measure, so the planned facility improvements and the associated property tax did not take effect. The school's infrastructure needs therefore remain unaddressed by that funding stream.

The school has no website listed in the data provided, and several categories of school-level information—course offerings, staffing levels, discipline data, attendance, and Title I status—were not available. A parent interested in understanding the school's programs, curriculum, or staff composition would need to contact the school directly.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 320%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 446%

School 46% · District 46%

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

Grade 57%

School 7% · District 7%

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 60%

School 0% · District 0%

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 717%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 818%

School 18% · District 18%

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 327%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 436%

School 36% · District 36%

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 29%

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

Grade 68%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 36 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 78%

School 8% · District 8%

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Grade 829%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Science

Grade 57%

School 7% · District 7%

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 812%

School 12% · District 12%

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 880%

School 80% · District 80%

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

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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.