Ambassador School-Global Education: The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.
Ambassador School-Global Education posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (0.1% vs 1.6%). If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 23 | 10% | 24% | -17.8 | 19.0% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Ambassador School-Global Education scores 23 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 6th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — 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.
Most rating sites would stop at “24% proficient” and call it done. Ambassador School-Global Education deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 29th to the 6th percentile since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 24% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 21% | 18% | 16% | 22% | 30% |
| Grade 4 | 29% | 31% | 16% | 8% | 35% |
| Grade 5 | 37% | 25% | 24% | 33% | 17% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 29% | 20% | 33% | 24% | 28% |
| Grade 4 | 20% | 16% | 17% | 12% | 27% |
| Grade 5 | 21% | 16% | 14% | 21% | 5% |
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 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- 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 School-Global Education in Los Angeles, 25.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ambassador School-Global Education trails its district average for low-income students by 15.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (15.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (24.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 20.8 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 149 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 falls by 10.7pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (34.1% vs 13.2%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
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
$5,423 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 3% 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 Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 72
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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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 3 | 50 | 10% | 20% | 16% | 54% | 30% | −13 |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 19% | 17% | 19% | 46% | 35% | −9 |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 5% | 12% | 14% | 69% | 17% | −31 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 54 | 11% | 17% | 17% | 56% | 28% | −18 |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 10% | 16% | 35% | 39% | 27% | −15 |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 3% | 2% | 10% | 85% | 5% | −30 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 60 | 2% | 2% | 50% | 47% |
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 | 149 | 25.5% | −15 | −13 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 113 | 24.8% | −16 | −14 |
| English Learners | 70 | 5.7% | −1 | −5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambassador School-Global Education ← | — | 23 | 9.8% | 23.7% | −17.8 | 0.1% |
| Third Street Elementary | 2.3 mi | 90 | 68.3% | 88.9% | +1.1 | 0.1% |
| Charles H. Kim Elementary | 1.1 mi | 63 | 40.2% | 61.1% | +8.7 | 0.1% |
| Dr. Sammy Lee Medical and Health Science Magnet El | 1.2 mi | 62 | 34.4% | 60.8% | −9.0 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 35 | 29 | #3884 | 7.3% | 26.2% | 12.3% | 0.0% | +4.4pp |
| 2022 | 35 | 47 | #3035 | 7.8% | 21.1% | 32.0% | 0.0% | +1.4pp |
| 2023 | 29 | 22 | #4472 | 7.5% | 19.9% | 27.9% | 0.0% | -5.1pp |
| 2024 | 42 | 51 | #2815 | 6.9% | 19.9% | 17.3% | 0.1% | +4.3pp |
| 2025 | 23 | 6 | #5387 | 9.8% | 23.7% | 19.0% | 0.1% | -17.8pp |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 13 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 12.0% | 19.9% | +7.9pp |
| Male | 12.6% | 18.3% | +5.7pp |
| Asian | 15.2% | 17.4% | +2.2pp |
| Black/African American | 16.7% | — | — |
| White | 8.3% | 7.7% | -0.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 11.1% | 20.8% | +9.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 9.1% | — | — |
| Students with Disabilities | 18.0% | 22.4% | +4.4pp |
| English Learners | 9.4% | 15.5% | +6.1pp |
| Homeless | 60.0% | 26.7% | -33.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 12.4% | 19.8% | +7.4pp |
| All Students | 12.3% | 19.1% | +6.8pp |
| Filipino | — | 18.5% | — |
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