Academy for Academic Excellence: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Academy for Academic Excellence pairs 48% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
Academy for Academic Excellence scores 53 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 74th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “48% proficient” and call it done. Academy for Academic Excellence deserves a closer read. The school sits in Apple Valley, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +18.8pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
As a charter, Academy for Academic Excellence enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding rises 11.9pp across grades; the floor rises 20.1pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Your other options
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 12.2pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +1.4pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 106 | 22% | 22% | 22% | 35% | 43% | +0 |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 17% | 27% | 23% | 33% | 44% | −1 |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 34% | 30% | 18% | 19% | 64% | +16 |
| Grade 6 | 124 | 14% | 40% | 23% | 23% | 53% | +7 |
| Grade 7 | 125 | 23% | 37% | 18% | 22% | 60% | +12 |
| Grade 8 | 115 | 28% | 40% | 23% | 10% | 68% | +22 |
| Grade 11 | 106 | 37% | 42% | 14% | 7% | 79% | +32 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 106 | 15% | 23% | 28% | 34% | 38% | −8 |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 12% | 31% | 25% | 32% | 43% | +1 |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 30% | 25% | 22% | 22% | 55% | +20 |
| Grade 6 | 124 | 23% | 21% | 23% | 32% | 44% | +9 |
| Grade 7 | 125 | 21% | 32% | 27% | 20% | 53% | +19 |
| Grade 8 | 115 | 35% | 15% | 31% | 19% | 50% | +17 |
| Grade 11 | 106 | 13% | 25% | 27% | 35% | 38% | +14 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 332 | 17% | 30% | 48% | 5% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 285 | 47.4% | +22 | +9 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 369 | 49.9% | +22 | +11 |
| White | 309 | 65.0% | +29 | +3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy for Academic Excellence ← | — | 53 | 21.5% | 47.7% | +18.8 | 3.1% |
| Sixth Street Prep | 1.1 mi | 75 | 43.2% | 69.8% | +31.3 | 0.6% |
| Galileo Academy 101 | 3.2 mi | 50 | 27.0% | 50.1% | +9.8 | 3.1% |
| Rio Vista School of Applied Learning | 2.8 mi | 35 | 12.6% | 32.7% | −2.0 | 0.8% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.