Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy posts 41% meeting the standard and 16.9% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy scores 39 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 48th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “41% proficient” and call it done. Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Huntington Park, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 25.0% of English learners met the ELA standard — versus 10.4% statewide.
As a charter, Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy 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 7.0pp across grades; the floor rises 12.7pp. 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.
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 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 57
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 12.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school.
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 | 71 | 14% | 24% | 27% | 35% | 38% | −5 |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 22% | 27% | 25% | 26% | 49% | +5 |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 21% | 30% | 17% | 32% | 51% | +3 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 72 | 15% | 24% | 19% | 42% | 39% | −7 |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 12% | 27% | 38% | 23% | 39% | −3 |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 17% | 14% | 22% | 47% | 31% | −5 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 72 | 7% | 24% | 57% | 13% |
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 | 218 | 46.1% | +8 | +8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 216 | 47.5% | −3 | +9 |
| English Learners | 64 | 25.0% | +16 | +15 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy ← | — | 39 | 16.9% | 41.1% | +2.2 | 0.3% |
| Vernon City Elementary | 2.4 mi | 60 | 37.0% | 59.4% | −31.9 | 0.3% |
| Maywood Elementary | 1 mi | 56 | 27.2% | 54.3% | −4.7 | 0.1% |
| Bryson Avenue Elementary | 2.7 mi | 55 | 32.3% | 58.8% | −24.1 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
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