Arroyo Vista Charter: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Arroyo Vista Charter pairs 55% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
Arroyo Vista Charter scores 54 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 76th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “55% proficient” and call it done. Arroyo Vista Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Chula Vista, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 63.3% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide.
As a charter, Arroyo Vista 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 rises 17.6pp across grades; the floor rises 28.5pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Arroyo Vista Charter's most underrated number
63.3% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 68
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 13.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +9.7pp.
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 3 | 103 | 21% | 26% | 31% | 21% | 48% | +4 |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 38% | 22% | 25% | 14% | 61% | +16 |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 39% | 37% | 17% | 7% | 76% | +28 |
| Grade 6 | 110 | 35% | 37% | 24% | 4% | 73% | +26 |
| Grade 7 | 86 | 38% | 44% | 14% | 3% | 83% | +35 |
| Grade 8 | 83 | 53% | 36% | 6% | 5% | 89% | +43 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 103 | 17% | 24% | 36% | 23% | 41% | −5 |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 22% | 33% | 38% | 7% | 55% | +14 |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 28% | 21% | 32% | 19% | 50% | +14 |
| Grade 6 | 110 | 20% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 50% | +15 |
| Grade 7 | 86 | 30% | 31% | 24% | 14% | 62% | +28 |
| Grade 8 | 83 | 52% | 18% | 20% | 10% | 70% | +38 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 196 | 24% | 37% | 36% | 3% |
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 | 180 | 63.3% | +18 | +25 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 353 | 64.3% | +15 | +25 |
| White | 94 | 81.9% | +11 | +20 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arroyo Vista Charter ← | — | 54 | 27.6% | 55.0% | +18.7 | 0.1% |
| Liberty Elementary | 2.3 mi | 70 | 42.2% | 69.7% | +2.8 | 0.9% |
| Salt Creek Elementary | 0.8 mi | 68 | 43.2% | 69.8% | +0.1 | 0.8% |
| McMillin (Corky) Elementary | 2 mi | 66 | 41.0% | 64.8% | +12.3 | 0.5% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.