Ambassador-Global Leadership: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
Ambassador-Global Leadership sits mid-pack on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 44 | 11% | 30% | +16.9 | 26.4% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Ambassador-Global Leadership scores 44 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 58th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “30% proficient” and call it done. Ambassador-Global Leadership deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +16.9pp separates this year's grade 6 from its grade 8. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G6 → 2025 G8 points the same way.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 21st to the 58th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 700 middle schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 30% of students meet the standard today, above the 18% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 15% | 16% | 29% | 19% | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 34% | 15% | 29% | 27% | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 31% | 21% | 19% | 20% | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 42% | 19% | 50% | 27% | 30% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 5% | 9% | 10% | 4% | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 14% | 3% | 9% | 37% | 40% |
| Grade 8 | 11% | 4% | 3% | 8% | 46% |
| Grade 11 | 20% | 9% | 12% | 6% | 18% |
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 falls 2.4pp across grades; the floor rises 2.9pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- 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 Ambassador-Global Leadership in Los Angeles, 27.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ambassador-Global Leadership trails its district average for low-income students by 13.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (29.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (25.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 27.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 223 students tested.
6 of 13 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.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 5.0pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (33.1% vs 17.2%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Ambassador-Global Leadership serves grades 6-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
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.
$1,858 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 472 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 8% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 | 59 | 5% | 19% | 24% | 53% | 24% | −23 |
| Grade 7 | 43 | 0% | 28% | 30% | 42% | 28% | −20 |
| Grade 8 | 75 | 3% | 24% | 29% | 44% | 27% | −19 |
| Grade 11 | 57 | 11% | 19% | 32% | 39% | 30% | −17 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 60 | 3% | 12% | 18% | 67% | 15% | −20 |
| Grade 7 | 43 | 26% | 14% | 28% | 33% | 40% | +6 |
| Grade 8 | 74 | 28% | 18% | 20% | 34% | 46% | +14 |
| Grade 11 | 57 | 12% | 5% | 18% | 65% | 18% | −6 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 135 | 1% | 7% | 60% | 32% |
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 | 223 | 27.8% | −13 | −10 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 186 | 25.8% | −15 | −13 |
| English Learners | 52 | 0.0% | −7 | −10 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambassador-Global Leadership ← | — | 44 | 10.8% | 29.8% | +16.9 | 0.3% |
| Magnolia Science Academy 6 | 1.2 mi | 58 | 22.9% | 48.2% | +13.4 | 3.7% |
| Thomas Starr King Middle School Film and Media Mag | 2.6 mi | 51 | 27.1% | 50.0% | +2.3 | 0.6% |
| Rise Kohyang Middle | 0.8 mi | 49 | 18.5% | 40.9% | +3.2 | 0.5% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 28 | 21 | #1591 | 2.9% | 18.4% | 22.4% | 0.3% | +11.1pp |
| 2022 | 19 | 7 | #2010 | 1.4% | 11.4% | 31.4% | 0.3% | +0.4pp |
| 2023 | 22 | 6 | #2062 | 2.8% | 16.6% | 30.0% | 0.1% | -8.1pp |
| 2024 | 29 | 27 | #1611 | 4.0% | 19.3% | 24.8% | 0.3% | +2.3pp |
| 2025 | 44 | 58 | #933 | 10.8% | 29.8% | 26.4% | 0.3% | +16.9pp |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 10 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 26.3% | 30.0% | +3.7pp |
| Male | 19.7% | 24.9% | +5.2pp |
| Asian | 23.0% | 12.5% | -10.5pp |
| Black/African American | 23.1% | 6.7% | -16.4pp |
| White | 21.1% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 22.1% | 28.9% | +6.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 27.5% | 26.7% | -0.8pp |
| English Learners | 32.8% | 37.6% | +4.8pp |
| Homeless | 31.3% | 32.4% | +1.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 22.5% | 27.3% | +4.8pp |
| All Students | 22.6% | 27.0% | +4.4pp |
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