Alexander Fleming Middle: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Alexander Fleming posts 42% meeting the standard against 39% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 47 | 18% | 42% | +8.9 | 22.3% | 0.2% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Alexander Fleming Middle scores 47 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 65th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “42% proficient” and call it done. Alexander Fleming deserves a closer read. The school sits in Lomita, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 34.5% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 54th to the 65th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 100 middle schools.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 42% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 43% | 31% | 35% | 33% | 40% |
| Grade 7 | 43% | 40% | 34% | 42% | 47% |
| Grade 8 | 51% | 42% | 44% | 36% | 51% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 38% | 26% | 34% | 32% | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 29% | 35% | 23% | 34% | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 38% | 32% | 40% | 30% | 40% |
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 5.8pp across grades; the floor rises 11.0pp. The state average falls 0.5pp 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 6 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- 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.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Alexander Fleming Middle in Lomita, 42.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Alexander Fleming Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 1.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (34.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (43.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 42.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 908 students tested.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 11.7pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$1,740 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
On the state's science test (CAST), 21% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 51
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 70
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 335 | 12% | 28% | 31% | 29% | 40% | −7 |
| Grade 7 | 345 | 17% | 30% | 26% | 27% | 47% | −0 |
| Grade 8 | 361 | 17% | 34% | 21% | 29% | 51% | +5 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 339 | 17% | 17% | 34% | 33% | 34% | −1 |
| Grade 7 | 354 | 20% | 17% | 24% | 39% | 37% | +3 |
| Grade 8 | 368 | 24% | 17% | 15% | 44% | 40% | +8 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 374 | 5% | 16% | 64% | 15% |
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 | 908 | 42.5% | +2 | +4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 749 | 43.8% | +3 | +5 |
| Students with Disabilities | 154 | 12.3% | −4 | −5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Fleming Middle ← | — | 47 | 17.7% | 41.5% | +8.9 | 0.2% |
| Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson Middle | 2 mi | 62 | 35.7% | 63.8% | −2.8 | 0.1% |
| Wilmington Middle Science, Technology, Engineering | 2.2 mi | 46 | 13.4% | 35.7% | −1.5 | 0.1% |
| J. H. Hull Middle | 1.6 mi | 45 | 20.4% | 46.5% | +0.1 | 6.6% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 40 | 54 | #915 | 13.4% | 40.3% | 15.1% | 0.1% | +4.5pp |
| 2022 | 39 | 56 | #955 | 11.8% | 34.2% | 38.2% | 0.9% | +8.1pp |
| 2023 | 45 | 60 | #870 | 13.3% | 35.1% | 28.2% | 0.3% | +7.2pp |
| 2024 | 39 | 54 | #1024 | 13.5% | 34.5% | 25.5% | 1.0% | +0.8pp |
| 2025 | 47 | 65 | #776 | 17.7% | 41.5% | 22.3% | 0.2% | +8.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14.9% | 19.3% | +4.4pp |
| Male | 15.4% | 25.5% | +10.1pp |
| Asian | 2.1% | 4.2% | +2.1pp |
| Black/African American | 24.3% | 30.5% | +6.2pp |
| White | 0.0% | 7.3% | +7.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 14.2% | 22.1% | +7.9pp |
| Pacific Islander | 12.5% | — | — |
| Two or More Races | 25.0% | 37.1% | +12.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 21.3% | 38.5% | +17.2pp |
| English Learners | 18.5% | 16.1% | -2.4pp |
| Homeless | 50.0% | 48.5% | -1.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 15.9% | 23.8% | +7.9pp |
| All Students | 15.1% | 22.4% | +7.3pp |
| Filipino | — | 28.6% | — |
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