Waverly Elementary, Stockton CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Waverly Elementary

Waverly Elementary is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade public school serving a community with substantial economic challenges in Stockton. Nearly four-fifths of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, and the enrollment reflects the city's predominantly Latino and white demographics, with a smaller Asian population. The school sits in a car-dependent area where affordability has drawn working families seeking alternatives to the Bay Area, yet household incomes remain below state averages and housing costs demand both household earners.

Academic performance is notably low across all tested subjects and grades. In English language arts, proficiency ranges from the low teens in the elementary grades to the mid-forties at eighth grade. Math proficiency is even lower, dipping into the single digits for fifth grade and reaching zero at seventh grade, with modest recovery to the mid-thirties by eighth grade. Science proficiency, measured at fifth and eighth grades, sits in the single digits to low teens. The school's overall proficiency index places it below the midpoint among San Joaquin County's school-testing set, reflecting the broader academic picture.

The pattern across grades suggests that students arrive from early primary grades with foundational gaps that widen through the intermediate years before narrowing somewhat in the final upper-middle-grade year. A parent may want to look into whether the school has identified the source of these gaps and what interventions are in place to address them, particularly in mathematics where the seventh-grade proficiency collapse is striking. The oldest state assessment data available, from social studies in the early 2010s, showed different results and cannot anchor a current trajectory.

Waverly serves modest cohorts by grade, with some grade levels at or below fifty students and others in the mid-sixties. The school has not reported student-demographic details such as English learner rates or special-education counts, so a parent cannot gauge what portion of students may receive targeted language or learning support.

No recent district-level changes of large parent relevance were found in public sources, and no specific school or classroom-level programs, staffing, or support structures are reported here. Broadly, a family considering this school is looking at a small school in an economically stressed neighborhood with historically low academic results. A visit and conversation with school leadership about intervention strategies, curriculum supports, and the school's specific plan to close proficiency gaps would give more grounded sense of what the school is doing with its students.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 43% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 422%

School 22% · District 37% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 512%

School 12% · District 22% · ▼ 10 pts below district

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

Grade 619%

School 19% · District 28% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 70%

School 0% · District 31% · ▼ 31 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 836%

School 36% · District 33% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 323%

School 23% · District 33% · ▼ 10 pts below district

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

Grade 417%

School 17% · District 34% · ▼ 17 pts below district

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

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 34% · ▼ 16 pts below district

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

Grade 622%

School 22% · District 34% · ▼ 12 pts below district

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

Grade 732%

School 32% · District 40% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 47% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Science

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 21% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 812%

School 12% · District 25% · ▼ 13 pts below district

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

Social studies

Grade 861%

School 61% · District 42% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 23 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income10%Higher-income50%40 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income16%Higher-income43%27 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income32%Higher-income33%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income48%Higher-income42%5 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income6%Higher-income33%27 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income11%Higher-income43%32 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income0%Higher-income0%0 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income30%Higher-income47%17 pp gap