Animo Jefferson Charter Middle: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Animo Jefferson Charter posts 27% meeting the standard and 7.3% exceeding it, against 39% and 16.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
Animo Jefferson Charter Middle scores 32 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 36th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “27% proficient” and call it done. Animo Jefferson Charter 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: 0.3% suspension rate — versus 3.7% statewide.
As a charter, Animo Jefferson Charter enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
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 1.6pp across grades; the floor rises 4.6pp. 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 5 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 48
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 5.1pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 119 | 9% | 24% | 26% | 40% | 34% | −13 |
| Grade 7 | 140 | 4% | 22% | 22% | 51% | 26% | −21 |
| Grade 8 | 157 | 8% | 31% | 32% | 29% | 38% | −8 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 121 | 6% | 12% | 26% | 56% | 18% | −17 |
| Grade 7 | 140 | 4% | 9% | 29% | 59% | 13% | −21 |
| Grade 8 | 158 | 13% | 16% | 28% | 42% | 30% | −3 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 158 | 3% | 15% | 63% | 20% |
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 | 401 | 32.5% | −8 | −6 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 398 | 33.8% | −7 | −5 |
| English Learners | 94 | 2.1% | −5 | −8 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animo Jefferson Charter Middle ← | — | 32 | 7.3% | 26.5% | +8.1 | 0.3% |
| KIPP Los Angeles College Preparatory | 2.4 mi | 59 | 30.1% | 60.1% | +14.9 | 0.1% |
| John Adams Middle | 1.8 mi | 42 | 15.8% | 39.2% | +1.3 | 3.1% |
| Synergy Kinetic Academy | 0.3 mi | 42 | 12.8% | 39.2% | +10.8 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 40 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
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