Aspire Gateway Academy Charter: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Aspire Gateway Academy Charter posts 37% meeting the standard and 11.3% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
Aspire Gateway Academy Charter scores 43 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 52nd percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “37% proficient” and call it done. Aspire Gateway Academy Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in South Gate, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, Aspire Gateway Academy 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 8.3pp across grades; the floor rises 1.8pp. The state average rises 4.5pp 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 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 4.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
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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 | 67 | 18% | 15% | 34% | 33% | 33% | −11 |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 7% | 35% | 20% | 39% | 41% | −4 |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 10% | 25% | 31% | 35% | 35% | −13 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 67 | 13% | 37% | 28% | 21% | 51% | +5 |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 9% | 24% | 41% | 26% | 33% | −9 |
| Grade 5 | 52 | 12% | 19% | 33% | 37% | 31% | −5 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 54 | 0% | 19% | 57% | 24% |
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 | 160 | 35.0% | −6 | −3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 157 | 34.4% | −7 | −4 |
| English Learners | 28 | 7.1% | +0 | −3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspire Gateway Academy Charter ← | — | 43 | 11.3% | 37.1% | −9.1 | 0.1% |
| Aspire Firestone Academy Charter | 0 mi | 61 | 15.2% | 41.5% | +9.2 | 0.1% |
| Heliotrope Avenue Elementary | 2.5 mi | 56 | 19.3% | 47.4% | +12.7 | 0.1% |
| Teresa Hughes Elementary | 1 mi | 56 | 18.0% | 40.9% | +1.1 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |