English: Proficient or Advanced
Spring 2026
- New West Charter
- Not available
- Santa Monica High
- 83%grade 11Advanced: 52%
- California
- Not on file
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New West Charter and Santa Monica High
Both are in the top quarter among California high schools we score (spring 2025 tests). English (reading and writing) has no clear leader; math has no clear leader.
New West Charter 86th
Santa Monica High 93rd
California’s public high schools · 1 dot = 1 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
New West Charter 86th
Santa Monica High 93rd
California’s public high schools · 1 dot = 1 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
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How do their test results compare?
From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). marks a figure clearly ahead of the other school. California: the same grades statewide.
Math: Proficient or Advanced
Spring 2026
- New West Charter
- Not available
- Santa Monica High
- 56%grade 11Advanced: 31%
- California
- Not on file
Do students show up and stay in class?
Average school: the average California high school we score.
Chronically absent
Missed 10% or more of school days · 2025–26 school year
- New West Charter
- Not available
- Santa Monica High
- 21 in 100546 of 2,618 students
- Average school
- 22 in 100
Suspended at least once
2025–26 school year
- New West Charter
- Not available
- Santa Monica High
- 1.8%47 of 2,641 students enrolled at any point in the year
- Average school
- 2.9%
How did results compare with what the state expected?
The state’s matched growth measure compares each student’s results with what the state expected from their earlier scores.
State growth measure, points vs expected
Grades 6–8, spring 2025 · students with scores in both years
- New West Charter
- −1 pts English −18 pts mathThe state calls them Average in English and Moderate in math · 379 students in English, 375 in math
- Santa Monica High
- Not available
How are they scored, who runs them, and how big are they?
Percentile among California high schools, with the Scope Score
Spring 2025 tests: high scores include graduation and college-readiness records, which the state publishes a year after the tests
- New West Charter
- 86th percentileStrongScope Score 73
- Santa Monica High
- 93rd percentileStrongScope Score 79
A charter’s authorizer decides whether its charter is renewed when the term ends.
Who runs the school
- New West Charter
- A charter school
- Santa Monica High
- Santa Monica-Malibu Unified
Charter approved by, and when the current term ends
- New West Charter
- Los Angeles UnifiedTerm ends June 30, 2030
- Santa Monica High
- Not a charter
Teachers in their first year
2024–25 school year
- New West Charter
- 5%
- Santa Monica High
- 8%
Average years of teaching experience
2024–25 school year
- New West Charter
- 6
- Santa Monica High
- 12
Size, grades and staffing help you picture the school. A staffing ratio is not class size.
Students per teacher
Public schools: federal school directory, 2024–25 · a staffing ratio, not class size
- New West Charter
- 18
- Santa Monica High
- 20
Grades offered
- New West Charter
- 6–12
- Santa Monica High
- 9–12
Sources and definitions
Test results are from California’s state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026: the share of students tested in the level’s grades who scored Proficient or Advanced, per subject. California’s figure is our combination of the state’s published rows for the same grades. A ✓ marks a figure ahead of the others by more than twice the margin of error (on chronic absence, ahead means lower). Chronic absence and suspensions are the California Department of Education’s 2025–26 counts; “chronically absent” means a student missed 10% or more of school days. The absence and suspension references are the average California school we score at these schools’ level, each school counted once. The state growth measure is points above or below what the state expected from these students’ earlier scores, for grades 4–8, from the state’s spring 2025 release. Students per teacher is from the federal school directory, 2024–25, which also lists enrollment: New West Charter 980; Santa Monica High 2,588. Teacher experience is the California Department of Education’s staffing file for the school year shown (teachers only). A charter’s authorizer is from CDE’s charter term file and its term end from CDE’s Charter School Database.