Green Valley Elementary, Danville CA

Original Research by School Decision on Green Valley Elementary

Green Valley Elementary sits in Danville, a predominantly affluent suburban town in the San Ramon Valley with large family homes, tree-lined neighborhoods, and a compact historic downtown. The school draws from a community where home values are very high and economic diversity is limited; a very small share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, and the enrollment is nearly two-thirds white, with smaller shares of Asian, multiracial, Hispanic, and Black students.

The school serves kindergarten through fifth grade, with roughly small-to-mid-sized enrollment across those grades. State testing results from the most recent year show math proficiency across the tested grades in the mid-to-high range, with third grade noticeably lower than fourth and fifth. English language arts proficiency is more mixed, starting lower in third grade and climbing through fifth. Fifth grade science proficiency was in the low-to-mid range. Across all tested grades and subjects combined, the school's overall proficiency sits in the top quartile among schools in Contra Costa County, a meaningful position that reflects solid foundational work in these grades, though the third-grade reading results warrant attention if a family is planning around literacy trajectories.

The school is part of San Ramon Valley Unified, a district serving multiple towns in the valley. The district renewed a significant local parcel tax in November 2024 after earlier measures failed, preserving dedicated funding for classroom teachers through the coming years. That stability matters because school budgets are often fragile in California. However, the district eliminated more than sixty positions in 2024 to balance its budget and has announced further reductions in counselors, psychologists, social workers, and teaching positions for the 2025-2026 year, changes that can affect the breadth of support services and class options families encounter. The district also adopted an ethnic studies graduation requirement, a curricular shift that will shape the high school experience for students graduating starting with the class of 2030.

Green Valley Elementary itself offers a regular public school program in a affluent, low-diversity, suburban setting. The school's academic profile shows competence in math and solid proficiency overall by county comparison, though the dip in third-grade reading is a real feature a prospective family may want to discuss with the school directly. The broader context is an economically stable but highly homogeneous community, with district-level budget pressures that prospective families should understand as they weigh the stability of staffing and services in coming years.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 370%

School 70% · District 79% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 484%

School 84% · District 79% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

Grade 580%

School 80% · District 76% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 50 pts above state median · ▲ 49 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 362%

School 62% · District 73% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 77% · ▼ 3 pts below district

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

Grade 584%

School 84% · District 81% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Science

Grade 571%

School 71% · District 66% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 43 pts above state median · ▲ 41 pts above county median

This schoolSan Ramon Valley 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.