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Aspen Ridge Public

Fresno, CA · Grades 7-12 · 246 students · Fresno Unified

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71% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 18% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

18%

Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

English

71%

Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

246

Total enrollment

Graduation

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Four-year graduation rate

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grade 11 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2024: 9%2025: 18%2024: 45%2025: 71%202420250%25%50%75%100%2024: 9%2025: 18%2024: 45%2025: 71%20242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
20249%45%
202518%71%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2024 to 2025

Climbed from the 5th to the 17th percentile since 2024 — past roughly 200 high schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “44% proficient” and call it done. Aspen Ridge Public deserves a closer read. Four in five of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — 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.

As a charter, Aspen Ridge Public enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

144 tested · 1 of 1 grade published

Aspen Ridge Public scores 42 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 17th percentile of 1,647 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Percentile among 1,647 high schools statewide
Year detailsYear2024 · 5th percentile · Scope Score 32 of 1002025 · 17th percentile · Scope Score 42 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased)MathOrange(Maintained)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 740%33%36%38%
Grade 824%36%30%30%
Grade 11——45%71%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 717%15%22%23%
Grade 815%21%7%14%
Grade 11——9%18%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Two in five of students here meet the standard. One in ten clear it by a lot.

ELA38% met or exceeded
Exceeded 13%Met 26%Nearly Met 31%Not Met 31%
Math18% met or exceeded
Exceeded 4%Met 14%Nearly Met 22%Not Met 60%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California high schools · average20% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2024–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Grad rateCollege readinessAbsenceSuspension
This school4212%44%——32.5%10.1%
CA average · High School5420%43%92.5%43.0%23.1%3.3%
This schoolCA avg
Scope4254
% Exceeded12%20%
% Met+44%43%
Grad rate—92.5%
College readiness—43.0%
Absence32.5%23.1%
Suspension10.1%3.3%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 26th percentile in reading against the 2nd in math, among high schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well below the middle of California high schools in reading, and the 2nd in math. We show it; we don't score it.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California high school lands at −3 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −13 and +5 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −6 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 26th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.26th pctile · −6 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −28 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 2nd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.2nd pctile · −28 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard behind the same group statewide.

At Aspen Ridge Public in Fresno, 34.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Aspen Ridge Public outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (13.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (32.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 16.1 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 125 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 28% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 28%, district —, state 43%28%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 24%, district 29%, state 32%24% · −4 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 24%, district 30%, state 32%24% · −4 vs school
MaleMale: this school 32%, district 31%, state 42%32% · +4 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 23%, district 33%, state 44%23% · −5 vs school
HomelessHomeless: this school 14%, district 12%, state 22%14% · −14 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 9%, district 10%, state 15%9% · −19 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 4%, district 8%, state 11%4% · −24 vs school

5 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California high school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Low-income students109 studentsLow-income students, reading: −6 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California high school, 109 students.−6 pts · −1 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students95 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −6 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California high school, 95 students.−6 pts · −3 vs typical
English Only74 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −10 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California high school, 74 students.−10 pts · −7 vs typical
Math
Low-income students109 studentsLow-income students, math: −26 scale-score points versus expectation, against −15 for the same group at a typical California high school, 109 students.−26 pts · −11 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students95 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −27 scale-score points versus expectation, against −13 for the same group at a typical California high school, 95 students.−27 pts · −14 vs typical
English Only74 studentsEnglish Only, math: −27 scale-score points versus expectation, against −12 for the same group at a typical California high school, 74 students.−27 pts · −15 vs typical
this school typical California high school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 6 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

Where graduates go

What happens after high school?

See the published graduate records below. Missing destination counts are not treated as zero.

College destinations and the full graduate record

Where graduates go

Context — never part of the Scope Score

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 15 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher15 · district 20
Teaching staff19 teachers
Avg. experience8.8 years
Fully credentialed59%
First-year teachers21%
Intern / emergency permit8.1%
PrincipalRiley Fox
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Teacher salary schedule$59,054 – $147,789
Principal salary$163,984 – $192,581
Superintendent salary$370,370

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended more, than the state average.

32.5% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 23.1% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — worth asking about on a tour.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 32.5%, district 27.8%, state 23.1%32.5% · +9.4pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 10.1%, district —, state 3.3%10.1% · +6.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

Its district spends $12,375 per student, less than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $12,375, CA average $14,491$12,375 · district average
District current expense · FY 2024–25$24,938 per student
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 54%Instruction support 12%Student services 10%Administration 5%Buildings & maintenance 11%Other 7%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$12,375 per pupil
2019$11,575 per pupil
2018$11,404 per pupil
2017$11,038 per pupil
2016$10,611 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Four in five of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 246 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).

On the state's science test (CAST), 21% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino78.5% · district 69.6% · CA 56.1%
White4.9% · district 7.6% · CA 19.9%
Asian2.9% · district 10.7% · CA 10.2%
Black10.6% · district 7.4% · CA 4.8%
Other3.3% · district 4.7% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch81.3% · CA 64%
Median income$56K · CA $85K
Median home value$295K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+17% · CA 35%
ZIP population44,527
Median age31 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · high schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Aspen Ridge PublicCharterNeeds Support12%44%School being viewed
University HighCharterStrong56%87%2.6 mi
Design Science Middle College HighPublicStrong44%69%1.5 mi
Erma Duncan Polytechnical HighPublicSolid14%41%1.8 mi
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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.

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  • Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Aspen Ridge Public a good high school?
Aspen Ridge Public has a Scope Score of 42 out of 100, placing it in the 17th percentile of California high schools and ranked #1,365 statewide. 11.8% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 8.1 percentage points below the California average of 19.8%. The Scope Score weights 7 dimensions for high schools: graduation rate (25%), exceeded standard (22%), college/career readiness (20%), met or exceeded (proficient) (18%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Aspen Ridge Public's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 44.1% of students at Aspen Ridge Public met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 11.8% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 32.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 11.8% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 34 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Aspen Ridge Public rank in California?
Aspen Ridge Public ranks #1,365 among California high schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 17th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Aspen Ridge Public?
32.5% of students at Aspen Ridge Public are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 23.1%. The suspension rate is 10.1%. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Aspen Ridge Public compare to other schools in Fresno?
Aspen Ridge Public scores 42/100 (17th percentile) among California high schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 246 students. Use the schools in Fresno page or the map view to compare all high schools nearby.
How does Aspen Ridge Public serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Aspen Ridge Public in Fresno, 34.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Aspen Ridge Public outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (13.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (32.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 16.1 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 125 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 4 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard11.8%19.8%22%
Met or exceeded44.1%43.2%18%
Chronic absenteeism32.5%23.1%5%
Suspension rate10.1%3.3%5%

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures graduation, test performance, college readiness, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Aspen Ridge Public: reading the evidence

Aspen Ridge Public posts low test scores — and test scores are one lens among several. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Aspen Ridge Public is ranked #1,365 statewide · #12 of 15 in Fresno Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard11.8%19.8%22%
Met or exceeded44.1%43.2%18%
Chronic absenteeism32.5%23.1%5%
Suspension rate10.1%3.3%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 19.8% · index 46 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 43.2% · index 55 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 23.1% · index 48 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint · ▲ 0.8pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 3.3% · index 21 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint · ▲ 1.7pp higher vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 76111%26%25%38%38%−10
Grade 86611%20%39%30%30%−16
Grade 111724%47%18%12%71%+22
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 7615%18%26%51%23%−11
Grade 8665%9%18%68%14%−18
Grade 11170%18%18%65%18%−6

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide982%19%58%20%

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.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged12534.4%+0−4
Hispanic/Latino10732.7%−3−6
Students with Disabilities229.1%−1−8
03Nearest high schoolssorted by Scope Score
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Susp
Aspen Ridge Public ←—4211.8%44.1%10.1%
University High2.6 mi9055.5%86.7%0.4%
Design Science Middle College High1.5 mi6343.9%69.3%3.6%
Erma Duncan Polytechnical High1.8 mi5614.2%41.4%2.7%
California average—5419.8%43.2%3.3%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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AP Exam Prepared
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YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSusp
2024325#15630.0%27.3%31.6%8.5%
20254217#136511.8%44.1%32.5%10.1%
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−6126Moderate−28126Minimal
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−6109Moderate−26109Minimal
Hispanic or Latino−695Moderate−2795Minimal
English Only−1074not categorised−2774not categorised
English Learner−526Average−2426Minimal
Students with Disabilities−1823Moderate−923Moderate
English Learners Only−2020not categorised−2320not categorised
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)−2819Minimal−3019Minimal
Homeless Youth−1918Moderate−2218Minimal
Black or African American−515Average−2315Minimal

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=1,647 high schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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