The top reported proficiency rate is 18% in English language arts. The lowest is 9% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Del Rey Elementary
Del Rey Elementary sits on Del Rey Drive in Victorville, a sprawling High Desert city at the edge of the Mojave Desert, roughly an hour and a half northeast of Los Angeles. The city's texture is largely car-dependent and utilitarian, built around logistics corridors, big-box retail, and extensive single-family subdivisions. It is a place of active growth, with new residential subdivisions recently approved, warehouse development advancing, and an ongoing effort to revitalize the historic Old Town through a pedestrian streetscape project and California's first Community Revitalization Investment Authority. For families weighing a move, Victorville's housing prices sit meaningfully below the California state median, though still above the national median, and rents have been edging upward over the past year.
Del Rey is a regular public elementary school within Victor Elementary School District, serving kindergarten through sixth grade. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Black student population and smaller shares of white and multiracial students. Nearly all enrolled students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Del Rey among the most economically disadvantaged campuses in the region. Data on English learner rates and special education enrollment was not available in the data provided.
Academic results from the 2024-25 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress tell a candid story. Across all tested grades and subjects, Del Rey's overall proficiency index places the school in the bottom quartile relative to districts in San Bernardino County. In English Language Arts, roughly one in six students across grades three through six tested at or above proficiency, with sixth graders performing somewhat better than their younger peers but still well below the state majority. Math results are lower still: fewer than one in ten fourth and fifth graders reached proficiency, and the numbers in third and sixth grade, while slightly higher, remain very low by any statewide comparison. On the fifth-grade California Science Test, fewer than one in ten students scored proficient. Only one year of data is available, so trend direction cannot be determined. A parent who wants to understand how the school plans to close these gaps would do well to ask directly about instructional priorities and any targeted intervention programs in place.
Because Del Rey serves only elementary grades, graduation rate data does not apply here.
One genuinely promising development for Del Rey families involves the district. Victor Elementary School District was publicly reported to have received a multi-year California Community Schools grant, which is designed to convert campuses into service hubs offering mental health referrals, food access, parenting classes, financial workshops, and an early-literacy program called Read B4K. All schools in the district are intended to benefit from this investment, not just the primary sites. For a school community where economic hardship touches nearly every enrolled family, this kind of wraparound support structure is a meaningful addition to what the school can offer beyond classroom instruction.
The district also operates as a district of choice, organized into four geographic quadrants, where families may apply to attend any VESD school. Each campus has a themed program emphasis, such as STEAM, gifted and talented, Montessori, or college and career readiness. There is also a TK-6 independent study option at two campuses for families interested in home-based learning with district support. How Del Rey's specific themed focus, if any, is described publicly was not available in the data provided, so prospective families would want to ask the school or district enrollment office directly.
Program offerings beyond what the district brief describes were not available for Del Rey specifically. Chronic absenteeism data was also not reported, which is worth flagging given how closely attendance connects to outcomes in the elementary years, particularly in schools serving high proportions of students facing economic stress.
Del Rey is a school embedded in a community that is economically stretched and demographically diverse, in a city that is physically expanding but still working through infrastructure and revitalization challenges. The test score picture is one parents should take seriously and explore further with the school.
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