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Central Language Academy

Grades K-82024–25 data
Ontario-MontclairOntario, San Bernardino County91764
📍 415 East G Street📞 (909) 983-8522
Developing
45/100
Developing — 59th percentile statewide
#2,142 of 5,230 CA elementary schools
↑ 5.1 pts since 2019
📈 On the Rise

On an upward trajectory — scores are improving faster than average. Worth a closer look. Additional resources are fueling an upward trend

School Climate
92% of students attend consistently
Chronic absenteeism: 7.5% (state avg: 18.1%)
"Attend consistently" means missing ≤10% of school days (the chronic absenteeism threshold).
Minimal suspensions
1.7% suspension rate (state avg: 1.7%)
Share of students who received at least one suspension during the year.
Source: California Dept. of Education, 2024–25See breakdown by student group →

What the numbers actually mean

Most rating sites report "38% proficient" and stop there. We think that number deserves more context — here's what we found when we looked deeper:

13.9% of students exceeded standard? Level 4 on California's CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment — the state defines four levels: Not Met, Nearly Met, Met, and Exceeded. while 24.3% met it. That exceeded rate is 7.7 points below the state average of 21.6%. That's 2.8 points below the Ontario-Montclair district average of 16.8%. The gap between "met" and "exceeded" can reveal how much a school's curriculum challenges students beyond proficiency.

CDE CAASPP 2025
Central Language Academy
14%
24%
California average
22%
21%
ExceededMet onlyBelow

We tracked the same cohort across years (2023 G3 → 2025 G5): students gained 102 scale score points? Pseudo-cohort tracking: we compare this school's G3 class from a prior year to the G5 class in the current year. Same school, same cohort aged forward. Uses SBAC scale scores designed for cross-year comparison., suggesting this school is adding measurable value over time.

SchoolScope cohort tracking · Same cohort tracked across years using SBAC scale scores — stronger than single-year cross-grade comparison

Chronic absenteeism? Missing 10%+ of enrolled school days. This is an official California Dashboard accountability indicator. is 7.5%, better than the state average of 18.1%.

CDE Attendance 2025

Data you won't find on other sites: School-level per-pupil spending (not just district averages) · Current-year 2025 data direct from CDE · The exceeded vs. met split that most rating sites collapse into one number

Why the exceeded vs. met split matters → · Scope Score is SchoolScope's analysis of CDE data — not an official CDE rating. How we built this score (and what it misses) →

No single score captures a school. This is a starting point — visit, ask questions, trust your instincts.

▸ What this score doesn't capture
  • — Teaching quality, classroom culture, and how teachers connect with students
  • — Arts, athletics, extracurriculars, and enrichment programs
  • — How well the school serves students with IEPs or gifted learners
  • — Parent community engagement and satisfaction
  • — Whether the curriculum aligns with your family's values

Most of our data is updated once per year and may reflect the prior school year.

Before you visit
Questions worth asking and signals worth checking
Who this school is great for
✓Families prioritizing upward trajectory — proficiency improves 4.6pp G3→G5
✓Families where consistent attendance and school culture matter — absenteeism is well below state average
△Worth checking: Families wanting top-end academic rigor — more students meet the bar (24%) than exceed it (14%)
These reflect data patterns, not guarantees. Your child's experience will depend on their teacher, grade, and classroom — things no score captures.
Score Factors
Academic Performance
✓Growth (G3→G5): +4.6pp
Scores improve across grades (state avg -3.0pp)
15% weight

Growth measures what the school adds, not what families bring. When available, we track the same cohort across years for a stronger signal.

Limitation: Cohort tracking is school-level (not individual students) — transfers and demographic shifts can affect results. Falls back to cross-sectional comparison when historical data is unavailable.

SchoolScope derived
Holding back
▼Exceeded standard: 13.9%
7.7pp below state avg (state avg 21.6%)
43% weight

Exceeded rate gets the highest weight because it separates schools that clear the bar from those that raise it.

Limitation: Reflects tested students only — opt-out rates are not published by CDE.

CDE CAASPP 2025
▼Met or exceeded: 38.2%
4.7pp below state avg (state avg 42.9%)
22% weight

Overall proficiency provides the broadest measure of academic achievement.

Limitation: Combines ‘met’ and ‘exceeded’ — the gap between them matters more than either alone.

CDE CAASPP 2025
School Climate
✓Chronic absenteeism: 7.5%
10.6pp below state avg (state avg 18.1%)
10% weight

Absenteeism reflects school culture and family engagement — an official CA Dashboard accountability indicator.

Limitation: 10% threshold is the same for all schools regardless of demographics or geography.

CDE Attendance 2025
✓EL proficiency (ELPAC): 17.0%
0.2pp above state avg (state avg 16.8%)
5% weight

ELPAC Level 4 measures how well a school develops English proficiency — a school-quality signal for its EL population.

Limitation: Only available for schools with English Learner students. Weight redistributes to other dimensions when not applicable.

CDE ELPAC 2025
Holding back
▼Suspension rate: 1.7%
0.0pp above state avg (state avg 1.7%)
5% weight

Low suspension rates correlate with positive school culture and restorative practices.

Limitation: Schools may differ in reporting practices — some underreport to improve metrics.

CDE Discipline 2025
We make judgment calls about what matters. We believe exceeded scores reveal more than proficiency alone, and that growth matters more than raw test results. Reasonable people could weight these differently — and that's fine. The factors above show exactly what we weighted and why, so you can decide where you agree and where you'd adjust. The elementary Scope Score uses 6 dimensions. How we built this score (and what it misses) →

The Scope Score emphasizes academic performance. It weights test proficiency, the exceeded-vs-met gap, and growth trajectory most heavily. If your family prioritizes arts, athletics, school culture, or teaching philosophy, this score captures some of that indirectly (through absenteeism and suspension) but not all of it. Different families should weight these dimensions differently — the score factors above let you see exactly what drives this number.

How to use this
  • –Use for long-term academic patterns, not this week's classroom experience
  • –Verify with a recent visit — scores can't capture a school mid-transformation
  • –Combine with local context — talk to parents, attend a school board meeting, trust your gut
Community Profile
Context — not part of the Scope Score

Student demographics

Hispanic90.5%
White3.3%
Asian0.4%
Black3.7%
Other2.2%
GenderFemale 49.5%Male 50.5%
Resources & Access
Enrollment
733
113 above CA avg (~620)
Free/Reduced Lunch
67%
4pp above CA avg (64%)
Student-Teacher Ratio
25:1
4 more students per teacher than CA avg
Per-Pupil Spending
$21,233
District avg: $15,539 · CA avg: $14,815 · School-level · CDE ESSA
EL Proficiency (ELPAC)
17.0% Level 4
Share of English Learners reaching full proficiency
Teacher Salary Range
$69,782 – $129,830
District schedule · CA median ~$98K
At Central Language Academy in Ontario, 40.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Central Language Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 1.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (48.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 42.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 303 students tested.
Equity Gaps
Absenteeism · Black+9.2pp
16.7% vs 7.5% overall · n=24
ELA · English Learner−42.5pp
9.0% vs 51.4% overall · n=46
3 more gaps by subject
ELA Exceeded · English Learner−17.0pp
0.0% vs 17.0% overall · n=46
Math · English Learner−31.4pp
7.1% vs 38.5% overall · n=46
Math Exceeded · English Learner−14.8pp
0.0% vs 14.8% overall · n=46

Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.

Subgroup Proficiency
Low-Income303 tested
ELA 40.9%·Math 30.0%· -1.6pp vs district
Hispanic389 tested
ELA 48.8%·Math 35.5%· +5.3pp vs district
English Learner70 tested
ELA 7.1%·Math 4.3%· -5.0pp vs district

Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.

Subgroup Growth by Grade
Change in proficiency from lowest tested grade. Shows which groups are gaining ground.

Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 20.4pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +8.9pp.

Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

Funding Breakdown
Instruction 64%Support 31%Other 5%

Source: NCES F-33 (2019–2020) · Full district breakdown →

Neighborhood Context
Median Income
$71K
$14K below CA median
Median Home Value
$475K
$184K below CA median
Bachelor's+
16%
19pp below CA avg
Whole Child
Teacher experience, college/career readiness, and more. Context only — never part of the Scope Score.
Teacher Experience
14.5 years avg experience
35 teachers · 6% first-year · 3% second-year
Teacher Credentials
93% fully credentialed

Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25

Community Profile provides context about who attends this school and the resources available. These factors are never part of the Scope Score. Learn why →

5-year trend

4045'19'22'23'24'25
↑ 5.1 points since 2019
Rank: #3193 → #2787 → #3084 → #2651 → #2142Exceeded: 13% → 8% → 11% → 12% → 14%
2019 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · No testing 2020–21 (COVID) · Scope Score based on CAASPP, absenteeism & suspension data

How Central Language Academy compares

Central Language Academy vs. California averages — 2025 CAASPP data
MetricThis schoolCA avg
Exceeded Standard13.9%21.6%
Met or Exceeded38.2%42.9%
Chronic Absenteeism7.5%18.1%
Suspension Rate1.7%1.7%
Cohort GrowthStrongAverage

Source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025 · Analyzed by SchoolScope

Grade trajectory

How proficiency compares across grade levels this year (different students, same test year)

ELA Trajectory
35.2%53.3%G3G4G5
Math Trajectory
38.6%29.9%G3G4G5

ELA scores by grade

GradeTestedExceededMetNearly MetNot MetMet+Above
3rd8817.1%18.2%21.6%43.2%35.2%
4th8321.7%25.3%22.9%30.1%47.0%
5th7718.2%35.1%16.9%29.9%53.3%
6th7915.2%25.3%30.4%29.1%40.5%
7th5616.1%57.1%19.6%7.1%73.2%
8th4413.6%47.7%34.1%4.5%61.4%

Math scores by grade

GradeTestedExceededMetNearly MetNot MetMet+Above
3rd888.0%30.7%15.9%45.5%38.6%
4th838.4%16.9%44.6%30.1%25.3%
5th7710.4%19.5%36.4%33.8%29.9%
6th7911.4%12.7%30.4%45.6%24.1%
7th5625.0%25.0%32.1%17.9%50.0%
8th4427.3%38.6%29.6%4.5%65.9%

Science scores by grade

GradeTestedExceededMetNearly MetNot MetMet+Above
5th1217.4%24.8%62.8%5.0%32.2%

121 students tested · CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually like ELA/Math. Not included in the Scope Score. · Data source: CDE CAST 2025

Schools nearby

Private alternatives nearby

Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.

Stone Ridge Academy
W 7th St · Nonsectarian · Grades Pre-K-12 · 113 students
11:1Private1.2 mi
Orion International Academy
Central Ave · Nonsectarian · Grades Pre-K-12 · 68 students
7:1Private2.8 mi
Kiddie Academy
E Foothill Blvd · Nonsectarian · Grades Pre-K-K · 60 students
3:1Private4.2 mi
Inland Conservatory for the Performing Arts School
W C St · Nonsectarian · Grades Pre-K-12 · 49 students
6:1Private0.4 mi
International Montessori School
Monte Vista Ave · Nonsectarian · Grades 1-7 · 37 students
9:1Private3.1 mi
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Frequently asked questions

Is Central Language Academy a good elementary school?
Central Language Academy has a Scope Score of 45 out of 100, placing it in the 59th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #2,142 statewide. 13.9% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 7.7 percentage points below the California average of 21.6%. The Scope Score weights five dimensions: the exceeded-vs-met split (45%), proficiency (25%), grade-level growth (15%), chronic absenteeism (10%), and suspension rate (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Central Language Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 38.2% of students at Central Language Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 13.9% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 24.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 13.9% pushed past it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it reveals whether a school's curriculum challenges students beyond minimum proficiency or paces toward it. 496 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Central Language Academy rank in California?
Central Language Academy ranks #2,142 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 59th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
Is Central Language Academy getting better or worse?
Based on 2025 CAASPP data, proficiency at Central Language Academy increases by 4.6 percentage points from Grade 3 to grade 5 growth. This upward trajectory suggests the school is adding measurable value — students leave with higher proficiency rates than they entered with. Growth trajectory is weighted at 15% in the elementary Scope Score because it measures what the school does, not just who walks in the door.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Central Language Academy?
7.5% of students at Central Language Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 1.7%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Central Language Academy compare to other schools in Ontario?
Central Language Academy scores 45/100 (59th percentile) among California elementary schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 733 students. Use the schools in Ontario page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Central Language Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Central Language Academy in Ontario, 40.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Central Language Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 1.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (48.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 42.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 303 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.
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