Alexander Valley Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Alexander Valley posts 70% meeting the standard, and 41.1% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 70 | 41% | 70% | +13.6 | 10.3% | 0.4% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Alexander Valley Elementary scores 70 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 91st percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “70% proficient” and call it done. Alexander Valley deserves a closer read. The school sits in Healdsburg, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 91st-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 70% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 73% | 50% | 73% | 65% | 76% |
| Grade 4 | 71% | 79% | 63% | 63% | 71% |
| Grade 5 | 82% | 83% | 80% | 71% | 88% |
| Grade 6 | 69% | 69% | 71% | 80% | 60% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 60% | 57% | 67% | 47% | 59% |
| Grade 4 | 57% | 57% | 63% | 69% | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 73% | 67% | 67% | 53% | 75% |
| Grade 6 | 75% | 63% | 79% | 80% | 53% |
The 5 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 Valley Elementary in Healdsburg, 77.3% of white students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 77.3% district-wide and 61.8% statewide. Alexander Valley Elementary outperforms its district average for white students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: White students (72.7% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 22 students tested.
9 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
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.
Showing up, and staying in class
The people teaching here
What gets spent here
$671 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
At 111 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 75% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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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.
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 | 17 | 47% | 29% | 12% | 12% | 76% | +33 |
| Grade 4 | 14 | 43% | 29% | 7% | 21% | 71% | +27 |
| Grade 5 | 16 | 56% | 31% | 6% | 6% | 88% | +40 |
| Grade 6 | 15 | 33% | 27% | 27% | 13% | 60% | +13 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 17 | 35% | 24% | 35% | 6% | 59% | +13 |
| Grade 4 | 14 | 21% | 29% | 36% | 14% | 50% | +8 |
| Grade 5 | 16 | 44% | 31% | 19% | 6% | 75% | +40 |
| Grade 6 | 15 | 47% | 7% | 33% | 13% | 53% | +18 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 16 | 50% | 25% | 25% | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | 22 | 77.3% | +0 | +15 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Valley Elementary ← | — | 70 | 41.1% | 69.9% | +13.6 | 0.4% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 68 | 89 | #594 | 35.9% | 69.4% | 2.5% | 0.1% | +10.6pp |
| 2022 | 67 | 92 | #456 | 38.1% | 65.5% | 7.5% | 0.9% | +21.4pp |
| 2023 | 62 | 86 | #773 | 40.2% | 68.6% | 3.7% | 0.1% | +3.3pp |
| 2024 | 68 | 90 | #547 | 39.0% | 61.1% | 9.2% | 0.4% | +5.9pp |
| 2025 | 70 | 91 | #504 | 41.1% | 69.9% | 10.3% | 0.4% | +13.6pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 3.3% | 3.5% | +0.2pp |
| Male | 0.0% | 12.1% | +12.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.1% | 11.4% | +6.3pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 7.7% | 0.0% | -7.7pp |
| English Learners | 5.6% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 3.4% | 16.7% | +13.3pp |
| All Students | 1.8% | 7.8% | +6.0pp |
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