Public school · Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary · Grass Valley, California

Alta Sierra Elementary — Rating & test scores

Grass Valley · TK–5 · 338 students (2024–25)

16607 Annie Drive, 95949altasierra.prsd.us ↗(530) 272-2319
68thpercentileSolid

The dots are California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools, placed by Scope Score on spring 2026 tests. How it’s built →

Scope Score
45

Weighted composite · 2025–26
A weighted mix of five of the six elementary school measures.

See this school’s score factors ↓
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100

Near California in English, well above in math: 53% and 58% scored Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5, spring 2026, against 46% and 42%.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 165 in English, 164 in math
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 3, 4 and 5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English and 1,211,701 in math tested).

From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”).

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12 in 100 students (41 of 342) missed 10% or more of school days in 2025–26. That is one and a half times the rate at the average elementary school in the Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary district.

Sources
The sentence above
CDE chronic absenteeism file, 2025–26. All students counted for chronic absence (CDE’s eligible enrollment): 342. District and California figures are averages of school rates (3 Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary schools; 5,726 scored California elementary schools), our calculation.

Common questions

How do I get in?

Ask Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary which school serves your address. Evidence ↓

Is Alta Sierra a good elementary school?

Alta Sierra Elementary scores higher than 68 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools: 68th percentile, Solid, spring 2026. Evidence ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 12 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 8 in 100 at the average elementary school in the Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary district. 2.0% of students (7 of 346) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. Evidence ↓

More questions (4)

Did students here score above what the state expected?

In English, below what the state expected; in math, yes. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 5 scored −7 points against the state’s expected score in English, which the state calls Moderate. In math, they scored +17 points, which it calls Accelerated.

  • Included in this measure: 106 students

Evidence ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 40% of low-income students in grades 3–5 at Alta Sierra Elementary in Grass Valley scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 36% for the same group across California. Evidence ↓

Where does it lead?

In the 2015–16 federal attendance-boundary survey, most of Alta Sierra Elementary's attendance area fell inside the attendance area of Magnolia Intermediate. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education’s School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary doesn’t guarantee placement; confirm your address with the district.

  • Magnolia Intermediate: 63rd percentile (Solid) of California’s regular public and charter middle schools, 2026 Scope Score

Evidence ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Next steps, ready to copy. Evidence ↓

Academic achievement

How did students here do on state tests?

Above California in English; well above it in math.

State tests (CAASPP), spring 2026

In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 53% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 58% in math, against 46% and 42% across California.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 165 in English, 164 in math
Comparison
California: CDE’s grades 3–5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English, 1,211,701 in math tested). The comparisons use the same grades and year.
AdvancedProficientBelow the standard

English

Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 165 tested

Advanced
24%
Proficient
29%
Below the standard
47%
This school53%
California46%
Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary48%

53% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.

Math

Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 164 tested

Advanced
26%
Proficient
32%
Below the standard
42%
This school58%
California42%
Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary46%

58% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.

Results for each grade, spring 2026English and math · grades 3–5 · every level, with tested counts

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced44%56%58%
Advanced22%26%23%
Proficient22%30%35%
Developing level32%20%25%
Minimal24%24%17%
Tested505065
California44%46%49%
Difference0+10+9

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced53%64%57%
Advanced20%26%31%
Proficient33%38%26%
Developing level31%26%26%
Minimal16%10%17%
Tested495065
California47%42%37%
Difference+6+22+20

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

New to these scores? Read CAASPP scores explained: how to read your child’s report →

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English went from 52% to 53% and math from 54% to 58%.

English · top two levels · grades 3–5

202552%162 tested
→
202653%165 tested

This school

California, same grades46% → 46%2025 → 2026 · 1,232,086 → 1,208,894 tested

Math · top two levels · grades 3–5

202554%160 tested
→
202658%164 tested

This school

California, same grades41% → 42%2025 → 2026 · 1,241,652 → 1,211,701 tested

Each year is a different group of students.

Did students here score above what the state expected?

In English, below what the state expected; in math, yes. California sets an expected score for each student from that student’s own score the year before. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 5 scored −7 points against that expected score in English, which the state calls Moderate. In math, they scored +17 points, which it calls Accelerated.

Source
Source
CDE growth model, 2025
Students
students with scores in both years in grades 4 and 5: 106
Comparison
Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

Grades 4 and 5 · 2025 · 106 students with scores in both years

Points above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores.

−7 pts

English

The state calls it Moderate, the second of its five growth levels.

+17 pts

Math

The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

Ask: How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?

All four levelsThe state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal, with tested counts
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 3–5 · This school24%29%26%21%165
English, grades 3–5 · California24%22%21%33%1,208,894
English, grades 3–5 · Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary19%29%25%27%472
Math, grades 3–5 · This school26%32%27%15%164
Math, grades 3–5 · California21%21%25%33%1,211,701
Math, grades 3–5 · Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary17%29%28%26%469

Below the standard combines the state’s Developing and Minimal levels, its two lowest. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2026. The state comparison combines CDE’s rows for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation). The district row combines its public schools in the same grades, weighted by students tested.

English and math results for the tested grades. These do not measure the experience in kindergarten or the early grades.

Each grade’s results: English ↑ · Math ↑

Results since 20178 tested years shown · English and math have been above California in every tested year since 2017

Chart and table: 2017–2026.

English top two levels, grades 3–5
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202653%46%
Math top two levels, grades 3–5
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202658%42%

The lines break across the COVID years, when state testing was waived or optional.

In grades 3–5, the share at the state’s top two levels in English went from 55% in 2017 to 53% in 2026, with 2025 and 2026 about the same. In math, it went from 41% in 2017 to 58% in 2026. Each year is a different group of students.

Each year’s results and tested counts

English · top two levels · grades 3–5
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201755%
124 tested		45%
1,384,680 tested
201861%
126 tested		49%
1,346,907 tested
201960%
139 tested		50%
1,332,547 tested
202250%
163 tested		45%
1,260,830 tested
202349%
144 tested		44%
1,247,801 tested
202454%
158 tested		45%
1,235,509 tested
202552%
162 tested		46%
1,232,086 tested
202653%
165 tested		46%
1,208,894 tested
Math · top two levels · grades 3–5
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201741%
125 tested		40%
1,392,040 tested
201848%
124 tested		42%
1,352,321 tested
201951%
138 tested		44%
1,338,625 tested
202251%
162 tested		38%
1,265,943 tested
202353%
144 tested		40%
1,256,519 tested
202450%
158 tested		41%
1,249,262 tested
202554%
160 tested		41%
1,241,652 tested
202658%
164 tested		42%
1,211,701 tested
How the state’s growth measure worksPoints above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 7 points below that expected score, and in math 17 points above it. Unlike the growth in our Scope Score, it follows the same students from one year to the next.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Our Scope Score measures growth another way. It compares the latest grade 5 scores here with the school’s grade 3 scores two years earlier (partly different children), then places that change among California schools at the same level. The state’s measure counts only students who took California’s test the year before, so the two can point different ways.

What you can do

Who can act on Alta Sierra’s results?

Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary’s board decides Alta Sierra’s plan.

The state hasn’t placed Alta Sierra in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source 

What has the state flagged?

The state is giving Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary extra help in 2026. It qualified on the 2025 California School Dashboard. The county office must help the district for at least three years, including a review of its yearly plan.

Extra help for Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary: CDE’s assistance status file for the 2025 California School Dashboard. Source 

When is the plan set, and how can you take part?

Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary’s board must adopt its yearly plan (LCAP) by July 1, after at least one public hearing at an earlier meeting.

How to take part

  • Watch the board’s agenda: the hearing is posted at least 72 hours ahead.
  • Send written comments on the actions and spending the plan proposes.
  • Raise questions through the district’s parent advisory committee; the superintendent must answer its comments in writing.
  • Read the midyear report, due by February 28.
  • Read Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary’s 2026–27 plan (LCAP, PDF) 
Reading screening in kindergarten through grade 2What the law requires, and what to ask

California law requires schools to screen kindergartners through second graders for reading difficulties every year, with some exceptions. You get notice at least 15 days before, results within 45 days, and can opt out in writing.

Kindergartners can’t be screened before the 91st school day; transitional kindergarten isn’t covered.

If screening shows your child may be at risk for reading difficulties, the school must provide supports. That result isn’t a diagnosis, and screening can’t be used to delay a special-education evaluation.

Ask how many K–2 students screening found at risk last year, and how many got extra reading help.

California Education Code § 53008. Source 

Life at school

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

12 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2025–26.

State attendance and suspension records, 2025–26

That means they missed 10% or more of school days. At the average elementary school in the Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary district, 8 in 100 were. 2.0% of students were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school.

Source
Source
CDE chronic absenteeism and suspension files, 2025–26
Students
chronic absence: 41 of 342 students counted for it; suspension: 7 of 346 students enrolled during the year
Comparison
Each comparison is the rate at the average school (our average of school rates), not a pooled rate. Also: suspensions at the average elementary school in the Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary district 1.4%.

Chronically absent, 2025–26

12 in 100This school
8 in 100At the average elementary school in the Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary district
17 in 100At the average California elementary school

41 of 342 students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days.

Suspensions, 2025–26

2.0%

of students were suspended at least once (7 of 346). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Ask: When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon?

Ask families and staff yourselfWhat to ask the people at Alta Sierra

Ask current families how the school keeps them informed, and what happened when their child needed help. Ask staff how long teachers tend to stay.

Questions for your visit ↓

Have a child here? Answer 7 questionsResponder en español

Teach here? Tell us Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary’s email domain so staff can answer our workplace questions.

Every learner

How do kids like mine do here?

Low-income students here scored well above the same group across California in math.

Student groups, grades 3–5, spring 2026

47% of low-income students scored Proficient or Advanced in math (grades 3–5, spring 2026), against 31% for the same group across California.

Source
Source
California Department of Education, CAASPP research file, spring 2026
Students
grades 3–5; each row gives its tested count. Low-income is CDE’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged”.
Comparison
California: the same group in the same grades, CDE’s rows for the whole state combined and weighted by students tested (our calculation).
Alta SierraSame group, CaliforniaAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students
  • Low-incomeEnglish · 63 tested40%Same group, California 36%
  • Low-incomeMath · 62 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 47%Same group, California 31%
  • WhiteEnglish · 113 tested56%Same group, California 60%
  • WhiteMath · 112 tested58%Same group, California 56%

Proficient or Advanced, grades 3–5, spring 2026.

Who are the students?

2025–26 · students counted
1. White: 66%2. Hispanic or Latino: 19%3. Two or more races: 8%4. Not reported: 4%Unallocated share: 3%. 100% minus available shares; not a student group.Reported shares2025–26
  1. White66%
  2. Hispanic or Latino19%
  3. Two or more races8%
  4. Not reported4%
  5. Asian—
  6. Black or African American—
  7. Filipino—
  8. American Indian or Alaska Native—
  9. Pacific Islander—
  10. Unallocated share3%
A dash means the share isn’t available; it isn’t zero. The unallocated share is what’s left after the shares we have; it isn’t a student group. “Not reported” is different: it is a category in the state’s own count of students. Source and comparisons: the full student mix below.

Who are the families and teachers?

34%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 116 of 338. California: 63%.

18teachers, 2024–25

15 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25

17%in their first year, 2024–25

100%of teaching positions with proper credential and placement, 2021–22

Ask: How does the school keep low-income students on track as they move up through the grades?

All group results, district comparisons and sources
Proficient or Advancedgrades 3–5 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Pleasant Ridge Union Elementaryvs California
Low-income · 63 tested in English, 62 in math
English40%+436%+436%
Math47%+1136%+1631%
White · 113 tested in English, 112 in math
English56%+947%−460%
Math58%+1444%+256%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary, and across California. ■ Green: a group that is behind across California does much better here, by 10 points or more and more than twice the margin of error.

Hispanic or Latino students, 30 tested: no rate for grades 3 and 4 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. Students with disabilities, 36 tested in English and 35 in math: no rate for grades 4 and 5 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, students of two or more races, English learners and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.

Full student mix, comparisons and sources, 2025–26
Students, 2025–26Here
White66%
Hispanic or Latino19%
Two or more races8%
Not reported4%
Asian—
Black or African American—
Filipino—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—

Data source: California Department of Education chronic-absence file, 2025–26. Shares are of the students the file counts for attendance (CDE’s “eligible enrollment”); unavailable categories are shown as a dash.

How the credential rate is counted

CDE SARC report 2024–25, measured 2021–22: 100% of teaching positions, 19.1 properly credentialed teaching-position FTE out of 19.1 total position FTE. This measures positions, not individual teachers.

Next steps

What comes after Alta Sierra, and how do I get in?

  1. Elementary · this school
    Alta Sierra Elementary
    Grades TK–5
  2. Middle
    Magnolia Intermediate
    63rd · Solid · 2026Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)
  3. High
    Link not recorded
    Ask the district about this stage.

Historical links and nearby options · confirm your child’s address and current assignment with the district. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Middle-school links

  • Magnolia Intermediate

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    63rd percentile · Solid · middle · 2026

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

High-school links

  • Arete Charter Academy

    Inferred through another school · underlying source period unavailable; not a direct feeder · Charter school. Check how it admits students.

Links do not guarantee placement. Charter, magnet, transfer and other admission routes can differ. Each school’s percentile compares it with California schools at its own level (continuation and alternative schools only with their own kind); the stages are not one ranking. Older zone links come from the federal School Attendance Boundary Survey (NCES SABS).

How do I get in?

Ask Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary which school serves your address.

School website: altasierra.prsd.us ↗Office: (530) 272-2319Administrator: Thomas Bivens

Location and visiting

Get directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
16607 Annie Drive, Grass Valley 95949

Directory location · Explore nearby schools on the map. Confirm which school serves your address with Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary.

Questions for your visit

  1. How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?
  2. When a child starts missing school, who calls the family, and how soon? 12 in 100 chronically absent, 2025–26 (41 of 342 students); average elementary school in the Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary district: 8 in 100
  3. How does the school keep low-income students on track as they move up through the grades?
  4. What are the school-day hours and after-school care options?

Office (530) 272-231916607 Annie Drive, directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Source records

Every figure on this page, with its source, grades, year and count.

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #1,786 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score · #1 of 3 in Pleasant Ridge Union Elementary
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math25%5342%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math55%6023%
5th graders in 2026 against 3rd graders in 2024 (partly different children)+77 scale-score pts5320%
Chronically absent12 in 100575%
Suspension rate2.0% (7 of 346)475%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. Growth is the change between the school's earlier and later grade-level groups, in scale-score points; it does not follow the same students. The weights above add to 95%: English learners reaching the top level of the state’s English test has no value for this school, so its 5% weight is shared out among the measures above.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–264568#1786California elementary schools · 5,726 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–1913 in 1001.2% (4 of 341)−2
2021–22not on filenot on file−7
2022–23not on filenot on file+25
2023–2416 in 1001.4% (5 of 345)−6
2024–2515 in 1002.0% (7 of 358)−1
2025–2612 in 1002.0% (7 of 346)+9

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English16524%53%
2026 · Math16426%58%
2025 · English16226%52%
2025 · Math16025%54%
2024 · English15823%54%
2024 · Math15820%50%
2023 · English14426%49%
2023 · Math14429%53%
2022 · English16328%50%
2022 · Math16224%51%
2019 · English13927%60%
2019 · Math13821%51%
2018 · English12627%61%
2018 · Math12419%48%
2017 · English12423%55%
2017 · Math12517%41%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 3 · English4848%
2025 · Grade 4 · English7060%
2025 · Grade 5 · English4445%
2025 · Grade 3 · Math4751%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math7059%
2025 · Grade 5 · Math4351%
2024 · Grade 3 · English6662%
2024 · Grade 4 · English4941%
2024 · Grade 5 · English4356%
2024 · Grade 3 · Math6653%
2024 · Grade 4 · Math4949%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math4347%
2023 · Grade 3 · English5235%
2023 · Grade 4 · English4248%
2023 · Grade 5 · English5064%
2023 · Grade 3 · Math5246%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math4248%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math5066%
2022 · Grade 3 · English3946%
2022 · Grade 4 · English5654%
2022 · Grade 5 · English6849%
2022 · Grade 3 · Math3962%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math5650%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math6745%
2019 · Grade 3 · English5258%
2019 · Grade 4 · English5054%
2019 · Grade 5 · English3770%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math5163%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math5044%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math3746%
2018 · Grade 3 · English4567%
2018 · Grade 4 · English3661%
2018 · Grade 5 · English4556%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math4553%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math3551%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math4441%
2017 · Grade 3 · English3546%
2017 · Grade 4 · English4652%
2017 · Grade 5 · English4365%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math3644%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math4639%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math4340%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide6523%32%38%6%

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.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income6340%+4+4
White11356%+9−4
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students−7106Moderate+17106Accelerated
English-only students−6103not categorized+16103not categorized
White−1077Moderate+1777Accelerated
Low-income−736Moderate+1236Accelerated
Students with disabilities−1420Moderate+420Average
Hispanic or Latino−518Average+1418Accelerated

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a valid growth score. SchoolScope uses that threshold for the shorter narrative view; the reported values stay visible here. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 5. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure, and grade 5 against the same school’s grade 3 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 5 in 2026 against grade 3 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 3
27%
exceeded standard · 62% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 66 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 5
23%
Advanced · 58% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 65 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 65 (school-grade cohort proxy).

These paired percentages describe English results for grade groups at this school in two years. The groups are not matched students. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different school-level scale-score proxy across English and math; California's matched-student model is a separate measure.

California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English−7 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 5

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 5

106 students

CDE growth category: Moderate

California growth model, English: −7 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Moderate, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math+17 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 5

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 5

106 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, math: +17 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 5, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 15 in 100 → 2025–26 · 12 in 100 · −3 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 2.0% (7 of 358) → 2025–26 · 2.0% (7 of 346) · 0.0 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female11 in 10012 in 100+1 in 100
Male15 in 10012 in 100−3 in 100
Hispanic or Latino8 in 10018 in 100+10 in 100
Two or more races18 in 10011 in 100−7 in 100
White12 in 10011 in 100−1 in 100
Students with disabilities12 in 10025 in 100+13 in 100
Low-income15 in 10021 in 100+6 in 100
All students13 in 10012 in 100−1 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$10,714 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 1,243 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$645 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 338

District current expense · FY 2024–25$14,397 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 65%Instruction support 11%Student services 9%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 8%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$12,798,60264.67%65%
Instruction support$2,093,72810.58%11%
Student services$1,855,4759.38%9%
Administration$1,435,9537.26%7%
Buildings & maintenance$1,522,7677.69%8%
Total$19,789,450100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $19,789,450 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$10,714 per pupil
2020$10,411 per pupil
2019$11,061 per pupil
2018$10,500 per pupil
2017$10,092 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 95949 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 95949 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$98,181
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33%
ZIP-area population20,552
Median age53.7 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 95949 →

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Data sources: public data sources, including the California Department of Education · state tests (CAASPP) 2025–26 · Scope Score from 2025–26 results, compared across 5,726 elementary schools · attendance and suspensions by student group from 2018–19 and 2025–26 · district finance for the year each row names · Census survey (ACS) 2020–2024 · Data updated October 15, 2026

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