Cypress Elementary, Tulare CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Cypress Elementary

Cypress Elementary is a public school serving kindergarten through sixth grade in Tulare, a mid-sized Central Valley city anchored in agriculture and food processing. The school is located on the South Laspina Street side of town, in one of Tulare's distributed, car-dependent residential neighborhoods.

The school's most recent state test results show persistently low proficiency across tested grades and subjects. In English language arts, proficiency ranges from roughly a third of third graders meeting the standard down to about a fifth of sixth graders. Math proficiency is lower still, ranging from about two-fifths of third graders to roughly one-tenth of sixth graders. Science proficiency in fifth grade was also quite low. These results place the school below the midpoint relative to districts across Tulare County. A parent may want to look into these numbers further with the school, to understand what supports are in place and what strategies the school is using to move these results.

The Tulare City School District adopted Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "Into Math" as the core mathematics curriculum for all grades K through 8 in 2023, which shapes the daily math instruction at Cypress. The program is supplemented with online tools such as Waggle and Imagine Math Facts. This standardized curriculum applies across all schools in the district.

The student body at Cypress is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial share of the school qualifying for free or reduced-price meals, reflecting the economic circumstances of many families in this part of Tulare. Enrollment is stable at roughly mid-sized for an elementary school. Kindergarten through third grade make up the lower grades; fourth through sixth grade are the upper elementary grades. The school's location places it outside the walkable downtown core of Tulare, so families rely on car transportation or district transit.

Tulare itself is experiencing modest growth and is among California's most affordable housing markets, with home values and rental rates considerably lower than state and national benchmarks. The city's downtown has a compact historic core with civic anchors including the library, City Hall, and the recently renovated Zumwalt Park, while residential schools like Cypress are spread across distributed neighborhoods. Major employers in the area span agriculture, food processing, healthcare through Adventist Health Tulare, and the surrounding county's large distribution and logistics operations. The region's concentration in food processing jobs runs nearly four times the national average.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 37% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

Grade 428%

School 28% · District 30% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 517%

School 17% · District 18% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

Grade 612%

School 12% · District 16% · ▼ 5 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 339%

School 39% · District 36% · ▲ 3 pts above district

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

Grade 424%

School 24% · District 36% · ▼ 12 pts below district

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

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 32% · ▼ 6 pts below district

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

Grade 620%

School 20% · District 32% · ▼ 12 pts below district

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

Science

Grade 514%

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

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below 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.