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Bates Elementary

Courtland, CA · Grades TK-6 · 82 students · River Delta Joint Unified

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18% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 9% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

9%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

18%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

82

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

20%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · 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 →

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0%25%50%75%100%2019: 41%2022: 31%2023: 8%2024: 25%2025: 9%2019: 47%2022: 39%2023: 17%2024: 44%2025: 18%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 41%2022: 31%2023: 8%2024: 25%2025: 9%2019: 47%2022: 39%2023: 17%2024: 44%2025: 18%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201941%47%
202231%39%
20238%17%
202425%44%
20259%18%

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 2019 to 2025

Slipped from the 47th to the 13th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “14% proficient” and call it done. Bates 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.

Bates's low-income kids hit 75.0% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.

45 tested · 1 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Bates Elementary scores 21 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 13th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 14% meet the standard today, versus 44% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 47th percentile · Scope Score 35 of 1002022 · 40th percentile · Scope Score 28 of 1002023 · 27th percentile · Scope Score 24 of 1002024 · 48th percentile · Scope Score 36 of 1002025 · 13th percentile · Scope Score 21 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathYellow(Increased Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 347%38%18%
Grade 445%8%25%
Grade 547%40%17%44%
Grade 661%83%38%17%75%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 347%56%9%
Grade 440%17%25%
Grade 535%7%8%25%
Grade 633%25%15%8%56%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in ten of students here meet the standard. 5% clear it by a lot.

ELA44% met or exceeded
Exceeded 13%Met 31%Nearly Met 29%Not Met 27%
Math31% met or exceeded
Exceeded 11%Met 20%Nearly Met 27%Not Met 42%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school215%14%19.9%2.0%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope2139
% Exceeded5%21%
% Met+14%43%
Growth
Absence19.9%17.9%
Suspension2.0%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 95th percentile of elementary 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 above the middle of California elementary schools in reading and math together. 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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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: +22 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 97th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.97th pctile · +22 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +21 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 93rd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.93rd pctile · +21 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

How every group of students does here

At Bates Elementary in Courtland, 75.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 30.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Bates Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 44.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (56.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (73.3% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 16 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 44% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 44%, district —, state 43%44%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 66%, district 26%, state 32%66% · +21 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 63%, district 24%, state 32%63% · +19 vs school

9 of 12 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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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

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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 elementary 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 students32 studentsLow-income students, reading: +23 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 32 students.+23 pts · +23 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students31 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +21 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 31 students.+21 pts · +20 vs typical
Math
Low-income students33 studentsLow-income students, math: +24 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 33 students.+24 pts · +25 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students32 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +22 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 32 students.+22 pts · +23 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 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.

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 21 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher21 · district 19
Teaching staff7 teachers
Avg. experience7.4 years
Fully credentialed100%
First-year teachers43%
PrincipalMichel Kiwan Gomez
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Teacher salary schedule$62,399 – $111,138
Principal salary$132,740 – $150,897
Superintendent salary$276,743

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.

TK/K students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (37.5% vs 11.4%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 19.9%, district 22.3%, state 17.9%19.9% · +2.1pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 2.0%, district —, state 1.6%2.0% · +0.3pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–611.4%
TK/K37.5%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $20,411 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$2,544 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

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: $20,411, CA average $14,491$20,411 · spent at this school
Federal share$2,544 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$22,334 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 55%Instruction support 10%Student services 13%Administration 8%Buildings & maintenance 14%Other 1%

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

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$13,283 per pupil
2019$12,651 per pupil
2018$13,088 per pupil
2017$10,048 per pupil
2016$9,519 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 82 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

Hispanic or Latino95.1% · district 57.5% · CA 56.1%
White1.2% · district 29.7% · CA 19.9%
Other3.7% · district 9.8% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch93.9% · CA 64%
Median income$73K · CA $85K
Median home value$729K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+45% · CA 35%
ZIP population918
Median age55 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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A source-reviewed culture summary is not available for this profile yet. Ask how teaching, student support and family communication work day to day.

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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What are the alternatives?

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

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

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Moving & enrollment

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School location and nearby schools do not establish attendance eligibility. Confirm boundaries and permit requirements with River Delta Joint Unified.

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Delta HighScope 53direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Delta High, which sent 4 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 9 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Delta High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 67% of Delta High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

4 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 9 AP subjects taught full record on Delta High's page
Source: UC & College Board

Source: sabs_2016. Schools are grouped by grade stage. Nearby schools are not confirmed feeder links or address assignments. Verify the current path and eligibility with the district.

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Worth a school visit

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Frequently asked questions

Is Bates Elementary a good elementary school?
Bates Elementary has a Scope Score of 21 out of 100, placing it in the 13th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #4,963 statewide. 4.5% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 16.8 percentage points below the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 growth (20%), 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 Bates Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 13.6% of students at Bates Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 4.5% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 9.1% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 4.5% 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. 22 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Bates Elementary rank in California?
Bates Elementary ranks #4,963 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 13th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), 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 Bates Elementary?
19.9% of students at Bates Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 2.0%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. 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 Bates Elementary compare to other schools in Courtland?
Bates Elementary scores 21/100 (13th percentile) among California elementary 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 82 students. Use the schools in Courtland page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Bates Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Bates Elementary in Courtland, 75.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 30.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Bates Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 44.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (56.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (73.3% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 16 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.
What middle school does Bates Elementary feed into?
By attendance boundary, Bates Elementary is zoned to Clarksburg Middle. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education's School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary is also not a placement guarantee: magnet, charter, open-enrollment and inter-district transfer options mean students from one school often continue to several different ones. Confirm your address with the district before making an enrollment or housing decision. Data source: NCES School Attendance Boundary Survey, analyzed by SchoolScope.

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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 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard4.5%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded13.6%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism19.9%17.9%5%
Suspension rate2.0%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)16.1%18.0%5%

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

A closer look at the evidence

Bates Elementary: reading the evidence

Bates posts low test scores — and low-income students here beat the state average for their group by 37 points in ELA. 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.

Bates Elementary is ranked #4,963 statewide · #4 of 5 in River Delta Joint Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard4.5%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded13.6%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism19.9%17.9%5%
Suspension rate2.0%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)16.1%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 37 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 32 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 17.9% · index 47 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 0.4pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 1.6% · index 47 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 0.6pp lower vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 49 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3110%18%27%55%18%−25
Grade 410
Grade 58
Grade 61619%56%25%0%75%+29
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3119%0%18%73%9%−36
Grade 410
Grade 58
Grade 61625%31%25%19%56%+22

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.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged1675.0%+44+37
Hispanic/Latino1573.3%+44+34
03Nearest elementary schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Bates Elementary ←214.5%13.6%2.0%
California average3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20193547#292513.8%43.6%4.7%1.4%-5.9pp
20222840#341810.6%27.6%22.6%1.9%-23.5pp
20232427#417610.4%18.8%17.6%4.4%
20243648#294818.8%34.4%19.6%2.6%
20252113#49634.5%13.6%19.9%2.0%
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female3.9%18.6%+14.7pp
Male1.8%26.8%+25.0pp
Hispanic/Latino2.6%21.3%+18.7pp
White7.7%
Students with Disabilities9.1%27.3%+18.2pp
English Learners1.4%27.5%+26.1pp
Military-Connected0.0%15.8%+15.8pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged1.7%22.1%+20.4pp
All Students3.0%22.6%+19.6pp
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+2233Exceptional+2134Exceptional
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+2332Exceptional+2433Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino+2131Exceptional+2232Exceptional
English Learner+1819Accelerated+1820Accelerated
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+2515not categorised+1215not categorised

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. 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=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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