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AeroSTEM Academy

Yuba City, CA · Grades 5-12 · 116 students · Sutter County Office of Education

This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.

61% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 39% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictSutter County Office of Education
PrincipalJoe Clark
Grades5-12
Enrollment116 students

Math

39%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

61%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

116

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

29%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

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0%25%50%75%100%2019: 24%2022: 20%2023: 25%2024: 33%2025: 39%2019: 45%2022: 42%2023: 29%2024: 42%2025: 61%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 24%2022: 20%2023: 25%2024: 33%2025: 39%2019: 45%2022: 42%2023: 29%2024: 42%2025: 61%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201924%45%
202220%42%
202325%29%
202433%42%
202539%61%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Climbed from the 38th to the 56th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 200 middle schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “46% proficient” and call it done. AeroSTEM Academy deserves a closer read. Three in four of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

As a charter, AeroSTEM Academy enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

68 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

AeroSTEM Academy scores 39 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 56th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 46% of students meet the standard today, above the 37% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 38th percentile · Scope Score 31 of 1002022 · 56th percentile · Scope Score 35 of 1002023 · 42nd percentile · Scope Score 27 of 1002024 · 51st percentile · Scope Score 35 of 1002025 · 56th percentile · Scope Score 39 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased)MathYellow(Increased)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 663%29%17%35%47%
Grade 754%43%46%23%43%
Grade 826%55%42%46%79%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 632%10%22%24%41%
Grade 733%34%21%18%30%
Grade 816%30%27%38%36%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Two in five of students here meet the standard. One in five clear it by a lot.

ELA56% met or exceeded
Exceeded 21%Met 35%Nearly Met 15%Not Met 29%
Math34% met or exceeded
Exceeded 15%Met 19%Nearly Met 35%Not Met 31%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school3918%46%—28.9%7.5%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%—18.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3939
% Exceeded18%17%
% Met+46%40%
Growth——
Absence28.9%18.1%
Suspension7.5%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 93rd percentile of middle schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well above the middle of California middle schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +15 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 89th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.89th pctile · +15 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +26 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 97th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.97th pctile · +26 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard about even with the same group statewide.

At AeroSTEM Academy in Yuba City, 37.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 9.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. AeroSTEM Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 28.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (34.4% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 32 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 44% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 44%, district —, state 40%44%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 36%, district 9%, state 32%36% · −9 vs school
MaleMale: this school 48%, district 9%, state 42%48% · +4 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 42%, district —, state 56%42% · −2 vs school

9 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

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The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only45 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +8 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 45 students.+8 pts · +8 vs typical
Low-income students41 studentsLow-income students, reading: +17 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 41 students.+17 pts · +20 vs typical
Math
English Only45 studentsEnglish Only, math: +24 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 45 students.+24 pts · +27 vs typical
Low-income students41 studentsLow-income students, math: +23 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 41 students.+23 pts · +28 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 19 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher19 · district 13
Teaching staff7 teachers
Avg. experience7.6 years
Fully credentialed90%
PrincipalJoe Clark
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Teacher salary schedule$50,807 – $124,515
Principal salary$141,637 – $141,637
Superintendent salary$248,802

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended more, than the state average.

28.9% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 18.1% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — worth asking about on a tour.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 28.9%, district 28.9%, state 18.1%28.9% · +10.8pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 7.5%, district —, state 3.6%7.5% · +3.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2019–20

Its district spends $86,014 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $86,014, CA average $14,491$86,014 · district average
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 46%Instruction support 21%Student services 13%Administration 14%Buildings & maintenance 4%Other 2%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$86,014 per pupil
2019$87,423 per pupil
2018$85,239 per pupil
2017$72,378 per pupil
2016$70,040 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Three in four of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 116 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 39% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino31.0% · district 43.6% · CA 56.1%
White53.5% · district 34.3% · CA 19.9%
Asian1.7% · district 12.2% · CA 10.2%
Black1.7% · district 3.0% · CA 4.8%
Other12.1% · district 6.8% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 33.6% · Male 66.4%
Free or reduced lunch76.7% · CA 64%
Median income$71K · CA $85K
Median home value$407K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+19% · CA 35%
ZIP population42,579
Median age34 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
AeroSTEM AcademyCharterSolid18%46%School being viewed
Anna McKenney IntermediatePublicNeeds Support5%24%2.7 mi
Gray Avenue MiddlePublicNeeds Support3%14%1.6 mi
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Worth a school visit

Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.

  • Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
  • Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
  • Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
  • Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
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  • Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is AeroSTEM Academy a good middle school?
AeroSTEM Academy has a Scope Score of 39 out of 100, placing it in the 56th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #959 statewide. 18.3% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is near the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are AeroSTEM Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 46.1% of students at AeroSTEM Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 18.3% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 27.8% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 18.3% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 108 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does AeroSTEM Academy rank in California?
AeroSTEM Academy ranks #959 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 56th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 6 to grade 8 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.
What is the attendance and school culture like at AeroSTEM Academy?
28.9% of students at AeroSTEM Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 7.5%. 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 AeroSTEM Academy compare to other schools in Yuba City?
AeroSTEM Academy scores 39/100 (56th percentile) among California middle 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 116 students. Use the schools in Yuba City page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does AeroSTEM Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At AeroSTEM Academy in Yuba City, 37.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 9.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. AeroSTEM Academy outperforms its district average for low-income students by 28.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (34.4% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 32 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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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard18.3%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded46.1%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism28.9%18.1%5%
Suspension rate7.5%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+13.0pp+1.5pp—

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

AeroSTEM Academy: reading the evidence

AeroSTEM Academy posts 46% meeting the standard against 40% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

AeroSTEM Academy is ranked #959 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard18.3%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded46.1%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism28.9%18.1%5%
Suspension rate7.5%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+13.0pp+1.5ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 17.2% · index 51 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 40.0% · index 55 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 18.1% · index 36 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 4.9pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 3.6% · index 34 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▲ 2.7pp higher vs 2024
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)
↑ vs CA +1.5pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 57——————
Grade 61712%35%18%35%47%+1
Grade 72317%26%9%48%43%−4
Grade 81421%57%21%0%79%+32
Grade 117——————
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 57——————
Grade 61718%24%41%18%41%+7
Grade 72313%17%30%39%30%−3
Grade 81429%7%43%21%36%+4
Grade 117——————

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide2818%21%54%7%

CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged3237.5%+28−1
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
AeroSTEM Academy ←—3918.3%46.1%+13.0pp—7.5%
Anna McKenney Intermediate2.7 mi205.4%23.6%+5.4pp—9.9%
Gray Avenue Middle1.6 mi53.5%14.2%−3.9pp—13.6%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20193138#12029.1%37.4%14.8%1.7%-26.3pp
20223556#93713.7%33.5%9.8%5.7%+23.5pp
20232742#12439.3%29.1%32.6%3.6%+15.2pp
20243551#106511.0%30.7%33.8%4.8%+12.9pp
20253956#95918.3%46.1%28.9%7.5%+13.0pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+1551Accelerated+2651Exceptional
English Only+845not categorised+2445not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+1741Accelerated+2341Exceptional
White+1428Accelerated+2228Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino+3913Exceptional+2113Exceptional

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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