Traver Elementary, Traver CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Traver Elementary

Traver Elementary sits on Canal Drive in Traver, a small unincorporated community in the northwest corner of Tulare County, deep in the San Joaquin Valley. The town is agricultural in character, surrounded by field crops, orchards, and vineyards, and it is car-dependent by any practical measure. State Route 99 runs along the western edge of the community, Visalia lies about fifteen miles to the southeast, and residents depend on larger nearby cities for most commercial needs. Publicly reported information indicates the Tulare County Board of Supervisors is considering a community plan revision that would expand the urban development boundary to allow mixed-use development and potentially hundreds of new homes along the SR 99 corridor, with proponents citing support for local schools and infrastructure as part of the rationale.

The school itself is a kindergarten through eighth grade public school, the only school in the Traver Joint Elementary district. Its enrollment is modest for a K-8 school. The student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, and a very large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a high-need economic context by any measure. Data on English learner rates and special education identification rates were not available in the data we reviewed.

On the most recent California state assessments, results across subjects are well below state midpoints. In English language arts, proficiency rates at most tested grade levels fall in roughly the low-to-mid range, with sixth grade standing out as notably stronger than the grades around it. Math proficiency is lower still across most grades, and fifth-grade math results are particularly low. Science scores at both tested grade levels are very low. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency index places it below the midpoint among districts in Tulare County on the comparison set of districts in that county. The social studies data available in the record is from a much older assessment cycle and is not directly comparable to current performance.

Because only a single year of recent data is available, no trend can be described. Whether these results reflect a stable pattern, a decline, or a recovery from disruption is something a parent would want to ask the school directly.

Publicly reported records indicate the district is actively planning a substantial physical expansion, adding multiple classroom wings and remodeling its administration building to accommodate projected enrollment growth. For a district of this size, adding that classroom capacity is a concrete signal of anticipated growth, likely connected to the broader development plans being considered for the Traver community. A family weighing enrollment here now would be walking into a school that expects to grow.

Program offerings were not available in the data we reviewed. Because this is a K-8 school with no high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and metrics like AP access or dual enrollment do not apply.

The picture that emerges is a small, rural, predominantly Latino school in an agricultural community that faces real academic challenges by the measures the state uses. The campus expansion signals that the district expects change ahead. Families who want to understand the school's instructional approaches, support structures for students who are behind grade level, and how it prepares eighth graders for the transition to high school would benefit from a direct conversation with school leadership.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 440%

School 40% · District 40%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 58%

School 8% · District 8%

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

Grade 616%

School 16% · District 16%

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

Grade 724%

School 24% · District 24%

▼ 6 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 33%

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 325%

School 25% · District 25%

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

Grade 430%

School 30% · District 30%

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

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 28%

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

Grade 653%

School 53% · District 53%

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

Grade 735%

School 35% · District 35%

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

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 38%

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

Science

Grade 54%

School 4% · District 4%

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

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 14%

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

Social studies

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 14%

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

This schoolTraver Joint Elementary, 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.