Ivanhoe Elementary, Ivanhoe CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Ivanhoe Elementary

Ivanhoe Elementary serves a small school community of about five-hundred students in grades kindergarten through eight in rural north-central Tulare County. The school sits in Ivanhoe, an unincorporated agricultural community of working-class families where most adults work in packing houses or farming. A substantial share of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly Hispanic, with smaller numbers of white and multiracial students. The school draws from a place where homeownership is common and life centers on the immediate neighborhood and agricultural landscape rather than a formal downtown or civic center.

Most of Ivanhoe Elementary's students are reading and doing math below proficiency. In the most recent state testing, roughly half of third graders met proficiency in math and less than half in English language arts. By fourth grade, proficiency dropped sharply: fewer than one in four students showed proficiency in either subject. Fifth and sixth graders similarly showed proficiency rates in the low to mid twenties in both subjects. Science results were particularly low; in fifth grade, where science is tested, only a small fraction of students demonstrated proficiency. Across all tested grades and subjects, the school's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint when compared to other districts in Tulare County.

The school is part of Visalia Unified School District, a district that has made several significant curriculum and program changes in recent years. VUSD adopted a board-approved phonics curriculum so that every student in kindergarten through second grade receives explicit phonics instruction, with the goal that children read by third grade. The district also made Math 1 in middle school count toward high school credit, allowing students to advance faster in mathematics and meet college-admission requirements more easily. For families with younger children, Visalia Unified launched a Blended Universal Transitional Kindergarten program that integrates preschool and TK into a full-day model.

Ivanhoe itself is rural and car-dependent, situated about nine to ten miles from Visalia. Most residents drive alone to work and own multiple vehicles. The built landscape is a low-density grid laid out along railroad tracks with a small cluster of restaurants and grocery markets near those tracks, but limited concentrated street life. Residents rely on Visalia for major shopping, freeway access, and many services. Home values in the Ivanhoe zip code are among the lower in Tulare County. The community's population has been stable to slightly declining over time. Employment centers on agriculture, with major operations including a citrus packing house, a walnut dehydrator, and farming operations such as citrus groves; many residents also commute to jobs in Visalia.

A parent considering this school would be choosing a place where young children live in an agricultural community with strong family ties and homeownership, where the school serves a predominantly Hispanic working-class population, and where current academic results show substantial room for growth in reading and mathematics. The district's recent emphasis on phonics and early literacy, and its expansion of early childhood programs, suggests a focus on building foundational skills.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 41% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 426%

School 26% · District 35% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 29% · ▼ 7 pts below district

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

Grade 624%

School 24% · District 33% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 44% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 426%

School 26% · District 42% · ▼ 16 pts below district

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

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 45% · ▼ 20 pts below district

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

Grade 642%

School 42% · District 46% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Science

Grade 54%

School 4% · District 28% · ▼ 24 pts below district

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

This schoolVisalia 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.