Aveson Global Leadership Academy: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Aveson Global Leadership Academy posts 39% meeting the standard and 17.1% exceeding it, against 39% and 16.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 35 | 17% | 39% | -26.6 | 39.5% | 2.8% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Aveson Global Leadership Academy scores 35 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 35th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “39% proficient” and call it done. Aveson Global Leadership Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Pasadena, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, Aveson Global Leadership Academy enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 56th to the 35th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 39% meet the standard today, versus 44% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 52% | 43% | 34% | 42% | 57% |
| Grade 7 | 55% | 50% | 45% | 34% | 55% |
| Grade 8 | 59% | 43% | 51% | 20% | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 63% | 76% | 37% | 64% | 30% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 33% | 19% | 13% | 29% | 43% |
| Grade 7 | 36% | 27% | 14% | 24% | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 27% | 13% | 26% | 10% | 21% |
| Grade 11 | 35% | 30% | 6% | 24% | 10% |
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 20.9pp across grades; the floor slips 31.5pp. 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.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what changes between grade 6 and grade 8 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Aveson Global Leadership Academy in Pasadena, 25.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 35.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Aveson Global Leadership Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 10.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: White students (45.9% ELA proficient); White students (27.0% Math proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 15.2 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 24 students tested.
7 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
Aveson Global Leadership Academy serves grades 6-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 200 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 27% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 67
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 80
Nearby High 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.
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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 | 28 | 29% | 29% | 32% | 11% | 57% | +11 |
| Grade 7 | 29 | 21% | 34% | 24% | 21% | 55% | +7 |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 8% | 18% | 38% | 36% | 26% | −20 |
| Grade 11 | 20 | 10% | 20% | 35% | 35% | 30% | −17 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 28 | 21% | 21% | 21% | 36% | 43% | +8 |
| Grade 7 | 29 | 14% | 17% | 41% | 28% | 31% | −3 |
| Grade 8 | 38 | 11% | 11% | 18% | 61% | 21% | −11 |
| Grade 11 | 20 | 0% | 10% | 5% | 85% | 10% | −13 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 45 | 11% | 16% | 49% | 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 | 24 | 25.0% | −10 | −13 |
| White | 37 | 45.9% | −26 | −16 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 15 | 26.7% | −10 | −12 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aveson Global Leadership Academy ← | — | 35 | 17.1% | 38.8% | −26.6 | 2.8% |
| Huntington Middle | 2.5 mi | 80 | 61.8% | 84.4% | −5.6 | 0.9% |
| Sierra Madre Middle | 2.6 mi | 67 | 37.8% | 63.9% | +0.6 | 0.6% |
| Jefferson Middle | 2.6 mi | 55 | 28.2% | 54.0% | +3.4 | 2.6% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 41 | 56 | #885 | 16.0% | 43.7% | 15.9% | 3.2% | +1.2pp |
| 2022 | 33 | 40 | #1304 | 14.9% | 32.7% | 30.5% | 7.0% | -3.3pp |
| 2023 | 38 | 45 | #1191 | 8.1% | 30.6% | 40.4% | 4.7% | +15.2pp |
| 2024 | 20 | 10 | #1991 | 12.2% | 26.4% | 23.1% | 2.7% | -20.6pp |
| 2025 | 35 | 35 | #1453 | 17.1% | 38.8% | 39.5% | 2.8% | -26.6pp |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 13 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
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