Monroe Elementary, Stockton CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Monroe Elementary

Monroe Elementary serves kindergarten through eighth grade in Stockton, a large inland city in California's San Joaquin Valley where the surrounding farmland has long made it a center for agricultural processing and distribution. The school sits in a mixed-income neighborhood with a clear Title I profile: a substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly Hispanic with a meaningful presence of Asian, Black, and other students. The school's enrollment is small to moderate for its grade band, distributed fairly evenly across grades.

Academic performance at Monroe is well below state proficiency benchmarks across tested subjects and grades. In English language arts, proficiency ranges from essentially zero at one tested grade to a high of about four in ten students meeting proficiency at eighth grade, with most grades falling in the single digits to low teens. Mathematics proficiency is similarly weak, with most grades showing single-digit proficiency rates and eighth grade reaching the highest point at roughly one in six students. Science proficiency is also low, at around one in ten in fifth grade and lower still by eighth grade. Among San Joaquin County's districts, Monroe's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quarter. These results reflect consistent, substantial gaps in foundational skills across the school's tested population.

The school is situated in a housing market where home values have modestly declined and rents are rising at a pace slightly above national trends. Housing affordability relative to median income remains tight for the region. The area's economy spans transportation and logistics, healthcare, agriculture, government, and education, with Amazon operations a growing private employment anchor.

At the district level, Stockton Unified has adopted SIPPS, a structured-literacy reading program, as its foundational reading approach and reports meaningful gains in early-grade reading outcomes since implementation. The district passed a voter-approved facility bond in 2022 and issued its first tranche in 2025, meaning ongoing capital improvements but also a property-tax obligation for homeowners. Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, the district implemented a cell phone use policy during the school day. The district's 2024-2027 strategic priorities, drawn from an equity audit, center raising academic achievement, supporting students with disabilities, and creating positive learning conditions for Black students.

A parent considering Monroe should understand that the school serves a predominantly low-income student body in a context where academic proficiency is substantially below grade-level benchmarks across subjects and grades. The district's adoption of structured literacy for early grades and its stated emphasis on academic achievement may offer some pathway for improvement, but the current data show this is a school where most students are not meeting grade-level standards. A parent may want to look further into what specific literacy and numeracy supports the school offers, how the SIPPS program has affected outcomes at this particular site, and whether the school's response to these proficiency gaps includes evidence-based interventions tailored to students' needs.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 37%

School 7% · District 27% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 36 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 411%

School 11% · District 21% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

Grade 512%

School 12% · District 14% · ▼ 2 pts below district

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

Grade 66%

School 6% · District 17% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 714%

School 14% · District 19% · ▼ 5 pts below district

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

Grade 816%

School 16% · District 19% · ▼ 2 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 39%

School 9% · District 24% · ▼ 15 pts below district

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

Grade 414%

School 14% · District 24% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 520%

School 20% · District 25% · ▼ 5 pts below district

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

Grade 60%

School 0% · District 28% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 44 pts below state median · ▼ 33 pts below county median

Grade 726%

School 26% · District 31% · ▼ 6 pts below district

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

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 34% · ▲ 6 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 15% · ▼ 5 pts below district

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

Grade 87%

School 7% · District 15% · ▼ 8 pts below district

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

Social studies

Grade 819%

School 19% · District 23% · ▼ 4 pts below district

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

This schoolStockton 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.