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Bernhard Marks Elementary — Rating & test scores

1717 Valeria Street, Dos Palos · 478 students · Grades 3–5

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Scope Score 72

DevelopingScope Score · 29th percentile. Higher than 29 in 100 of the 5,726 California public elementary schools we score.

75 is the typical California school. 100 is the best result in the state. How the score is built

Well below California in English (reading and writing) and math, grades 3–5, spring 2026: 27% and 24% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 46% and 42%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 451 in English, 455 in math
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 3, 4 and 5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English and 1,211,701 in math tested).

Overview

Is Bernhard Marks a good elementary school?

Developing. Bernhard Marks is higher than most California elementary schools on progress in both subjects. Bernhard Marks is lower than most on test results and attendance.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced1727%
Math, Proficient or Advanced2224%
English, Advanced2612%
Math, Advanced207%

Progress in a year, 2025

English72+9 pts
Math90+19 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance3519 in 100
Bernhard Marks’s place among California elementary schools, out of 100Bar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

On spring 2025 tests, students in grades 4 and 5 scored higher than California students who had the same scores the year before, in English (+9 pts) and math (+19 pts). The state calls both results Accelerated. In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 12% of students tested in English and 7% in math scored Advanced, against 24% and 21% across California. Advanced is the top of the state’s four levels.

Each bar is Bernhard Marks’s place among 5,726 California public elementary schools we score. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, updated October 15, 2026.

How to read these bars, and their sources

A place counts the schools out of 100 with a lower figure. The dashed line is the middle. Test results are from spring 2026, grades 3–5. Progress is the state’s measure of how the same students’ scores changed against the score it expected, 2025. Attendance counts students who missed 10% or more of school days; fewer is better, so a higher place means fewer such students.

Sentence 1
CDE growth model, 2025. Students with scores in both years in grades 4 and 5: 290. Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.
Sentence 2
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026. All students tested in grades 3–5: 451 in English, 455 in math. California: CDE’s grade 3, 4 and 5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English and 1,211,701 in math tested).

In its own words

What does Bernhard Marks say about itself?

We haven’t read Bernhard Marks’s website yet. Until we do, the school’s own site is the best place to hear it in its own words.

Open mes.dpol.net (opens in a new tab)

Progress

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 5 scored 9 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 19 points higher, which the state calls Accelerated.

English

+9

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

Low-income258+9 points
Hispanic or Latino243+6 points
English learners91+10 points
Students with disabilities43−2 points
White34+19 points

Math

+19

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

Low-income258+18 points
Hispanic or Latino243+19 points
English learners91+18 points
Students with disabilities43−1 points
White34+17 points

Grades 4 and 5, 2025, 290 students with scores in both years. Faded rows have fewer than 40 students. It describes results, not causes. Source: California Department of Education, growth model.

How the state’s growth measure works

The state calls this comparison an expected score. It sets one for each student from that student’s own score the year before.

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 9 points above that expected score, and in math 19 points above it. Unlike the growth in our Scope Score, it follows the same students from one year to the next.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Our Scope Score measures growth another way. It compares the latest grade 5 scores here with the school’s grade 3 scores two years earlier (partly different children), then places that change among California schools at the same level. The state’s measure counts only students who took California’s test the year before, so the two can point different ways.

SchoolScope elementary standardized cohort gain: approximately 80th percentile on a calibrated reference scale, not an empirical school rank. This score compares school-level grade groups across English and math, not matched students in California's separate growth model.

Schools like it

How does Bernhard Marks compare with schools like it?

Bernhard Marks’s Scope Score is 72. 1,494 California elementary schools, counting Bernhard Marks, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 72. Bernhard Marks’s result is higher than 766 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 1,494

  1. Students from low-income families: 85%

    Scope Score 94Strong · 97th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 88%

    Scope Score 89Strong · 92nd percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 88%

    Scope Score 87Strong · 89th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 91%

    Scope Score 87Strong · 89th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 91%

    Scope Score 87Strong · 89th percentile

1,494 California public elementary schools where 81% to 93% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, spring 2026.

How the group is chosen

The group is every California public elementary school we score where 81% to 93% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. That is within 6 points of Bernhard Marks’s share. The count includes Bernhard Marks. Typical means the median: half are higher and half are lower. Schools differ in more than family income, and no score is changed for it. Our calculation from California Department of Education records: state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, and school meal eligibility, 2024–25.

Over time

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English went from 26% to 27% and math from 22% to 24%.

Share at the state’s top two test levels, 2017 to 2026

Grades 3–5. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202620%46%CaliforniaCalifornia27%Bernhard MarksThis school

Math

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202615%42%CaliforniaCalifornia24%Bernhard MarksThis school

The lines break where a year has no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Each year’s results

The top two levels were called Met or Exceeded before 2026 and are called Proficient or Advanced now.

English, grades 3–5: share at the top two levels
SpringBernhard MarksCaliforniaTested here
201720%45%539
201821%49%531
201925%50%549
202224%45%476
202322%44%493
202422%45%468
202526%46%474
202627%46%451
Math, grades 3–5: share at the top two levels
SpringBernhard MarksCaliforniaTested here
201715%40%539
201816%42%530
201920%44%549
202214%38%474
202320%40%495
202419%41%479
202522%41%484
202624%42%455

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

Well below California in both subjects.

English

27%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

49241512
California46%

Math

24%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

5125177
California42%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 27% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 24% in math, against 46% and 42% across California.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grades 3–5 combined. From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Grade 5 stands apart in English: 39% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 27% across grades 3–5 here, spring 2026. Each grade is a different group of students, so this describes one year’s class.

Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced21%21%39%
Advanced13%9%14%
Proficient8%12%25%
Developing level26%17%30%
Minimal53%62%31%
Tested149162140
California44%46%49%
Difference−23−25−10

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced25%18%28%
Advanced7%4%9%
Proficient18%14%19%
Developing level23%22%32%
Minimal52%60%40%
Tested150163142
California47%42%37%
Difference−22−24−9

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

All four test levels, with the number of students tested
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026. The state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal.
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 3–5 · This school12%15%24%49%451
English, grades 3–5 · California24%22%21%33%1,208,894
Math, grades 3–5 · This school7%17%25%51%455
Math, grades 3–5 · California21%21%25%33%1,211,701

Spring 2026, grades 3–5 combined: 451 tested in English, 455 tested in math. California combines the state’s results for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Who goes here

Who goes here?

Hispanic or Latino students are the largest group here, at 86% of students. 92 of 476 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

19in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (92 of 476 students).

At the average California elementary school: 17 in 100.

No district average: Bernhard Marks is the only regular elementary school we rank in the Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified district with an attendance record.

Suspensions: 4.8% of students were suspended at least once (23 of 484). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Students, 2024–25

478

students in grades 3–5.

Hispanic or Latino 86%White 10%

Family income

87%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 418 of 478. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

24

teachers, with 14 years of experience on average.

8% were in their first year.

89% of teaching positions had the right credential, 2021–22.

English learners

49%

of English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026 (62 of 126 students).

Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified: 50%. California: 47%.

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Sources: California Department of Education and the California School Dashboard. Each tile names its year.

Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
Hispanic or Latino86%
White10%
Asian—
Black or African American—
Filipino—
Two or more races—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—
Where these figures come from

Attendance and suspensions: California Department of Education, 2025–26. Student mix: the students the state’s attendance file counts, 2025–26; a dash means our records hold no count. English learner progress: California School Dashboard, 2026 . Student count: California Department of Education enrollment, 2024–25. Teachers: California Department of Education staffing files, 2024–25.

Teaching credentials: California’s School Accountability Report Card, 2024–25, measured in 2021–22: 22 of 24.8 full-time teaching positions. It counts positions, not individual teachers.

Student groups

How do kids like mine do here?

Five student groups scored below the same groups across California in math.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • White35 tested31%California 53%
  • Hispanic or Latino390 tested23%California 31%
  • Low-income414 tested21%California 31%
  • English learners126 tested6%California 16%
  • Students with disabilities58 tested2%California 18%

21% of low-income students scored Proficient or Advanced in math (grades 3–5, spring 2026), against 31% for the same group across California. Hispanic or Latino and White students, students with disabilities and English learners also scored below the same groups across California; the chart gives their figures. Every group’s English results are in the table below.

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 3–5 math, spring 2026. Each group is compared with the same group in the same grades. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Every group’s results, with the district

Low-income is the state’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” group.

Proficient or Advancedgrades 3–5 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 410 tested in English, 414 in math
English25%025%−1136%
Math21%021%−1031%
Hispanic or Latino · 387 tested in English, 390 in math
English26%026%−1036%
Math23%023%−831%
White · 35 tested · grades 4 and 5 only
English37%037%−2461%
Math31%031%−2253%
English learners · 124 tested in English, 126 in math
English11%011%−213%
Math6%06%−1016%
Students with disabilities · 58 tested
English3%03%−1619%
Math2%02%−1618%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified, and across California. No group that is behind across California does 10 or more points better here.

Military-family students, 30 tested: no rate for grades 3 and 5 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander and homeless students, students of two or more races and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.

Family and staff answers

What would families and staff tell you?

Families can answer a short set of questions about Bernhard Marks. These are not star ratings or reviews.

  1. Family answers show once 20 families have answered.Until then this page shows how many have answered.
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  • Does the school tell you how your child is doing, in a way you understand, before report cards arrive?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely
  • When you contact the school with a question, do you hear back within two school days?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely · Haven’t contacted them
  • Can you get school information in the language you read best?Yes · Mostly · No
  • And 4 more questions.

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Money

How much is spent on each student here?

$18,324 for each student in 2024–25. California’s elementary schools spent $20,288 for each student.

$18,324

for each student at this school, 2024–25
Spent at the school
$11,616
The school’s share of district office costs
$6,708
Of the total, from federal funds
$2,693
  • Bernhard Marks$18,324
  • California elementary schools$20,288

The district and California figures combine their elementary schools, weighted by enrollment (our calculation, 5,053 California schools). Spending does not show how well money is used. Source: California Department of Education, per-school spending report, 2024–25. Funding records ↓

The neighborhood

What is the area around Bernhard Marks like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 93620. They are not figures for the families at Bernhard Marks.

Typical household income in a year

$45,456

Typical means half are higher and half are lower. The ZIP code is the school’s address, not its attendance area. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024, ZIP code area 93620.

Typical home value
$323,400
People who live in this ZIP code
9,927
Typical age
37.0 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
11%

What you can do

Who can act on Bernhard Marks’ results?

Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified’s board decides Bernhard Marks’ plan.

When the plan is set

Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified’s board must adopt its yearly plan (LCAP) by July 1, after at least one public hearing at an earlier meeting.

Read the 2026–27 plan (LCAP, PDF)

How to take part

  1. Watch the board’s agenda: the hearing is posted at least 72 hours ahead.
  2. Send written comments on the actions and spending the plan proposes.
  3. Raise questions through the district’s parent advisory committee; the superintendent must answer its comments in writing.
  4. Read the midyear report, due by February 28.

State support

The state hasn’t placed Bernhard Marks in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source 

Extra state help for the district

The state is giving Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified extra help in 2026. It qualified on the 2025 and 2026 California School Dashboards. The 2026 Dashboard flagged results for low-income students on two measures: English, and math. The county office must help the district for at least three years, including a review of its yearly plan.

Extra help for Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified: CDE’s assistance status files for the 2025 and 2026 California School Dashboards. Source 

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 7 questions to Bernhard Marks. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. What does the school try before a suspension, and who talks with the family?4.8% suspended at least once, 2025–26 (23 of 484 students); average California elementary school: 1.6%
  2. How does the school check reading in kindergarten through grade 2, and what help follows when a child is behind?21% of grade 3 students scored Proficient or Advanced in English, spring 2026 (149 students tested); California, grade 3: 44%
  3. What extra help do English learners get, and how do you know it’s working?6% of English learners scored Proficient or Advanced in math, grades 3–5, spring 2026 (126 students tested); the same group across California: 16%
  4. What extra help do students who are behind get, and how do you know it’s working?73% in English and 76% in math scored at the Developing or Minimal level, grades 3–5, spring 2026 (451 tested in English, 455 in math); California: 54% and 58%
  5. What are the school-day hours and after-school care options?

At the office

  1. What time does the day start and end, and is any day shorter?
  2. Is there care before or after school, and what does it cost?

Getting in

What comes after Bernhard Marks, and how do I get in?

Ask Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified which school serves your address.

  1. Elementary · this school
    Bernhard Marks Elementary
    Grades 3–5Scope Score 72Developing · 29th percentile
  2. Middle
    Bryant Middle
    Scope Score 66Needs Support · 3rd percentile · 2026Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)
  3. High
    Dos Palos High
    Scope Score 69Needs Support · 21st percentile · 2025Inferred through another school · underlying source period unavailable; not a direct feeder

These links come from past records and from distance. Confirm your child’s school with the district. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Middle-school links

  • Bryant Middle

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    Scope Score 66 · Needs Support · 3rd percentile · middle · 2026

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

High-school links

  • Dos Palos High

    Inferred through another school · underlying source period unavailable; not a direct feeder

    Scope Score 69 · Needs Support · 21st percentile · high · 2025

Links do not guarantee placement. Charter, magnet, transfer and other admission routes can differ. Each school’s percentile compares it with California schools at its own level (continuation and alternative schools only with their own kind); the stages are not one ranking. Older zone links come from the federal School Attendance Boundary Survey (NCES SABS).

Where the path ends: Dos Palos High
Dos Palos HighScope Score 69 · Needs Support · 21st percentile · 2025estimated path

An inferred path through a middle-school overlap points to Dos Palos High. UC records 8 enrollees from Dos Palos High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 5 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. If a child starting here today later attended Dos Palos High, that would be around 2032, and a school can change a lot in 6 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 41% of the students who finished high school at Dos Palos High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

8 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 5 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on Dos Palos High's page
Source: UC & College Board AP Course Ledger

Where it is

Where is Bernhard Marks?

Address
1717 Valeria Street, Dos Palos 93620Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Sergio PadillaAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated August 21, 2024.

A school’s place on the map is its address in the state directory. It does not show which homes the school serves. See nearby schools on the map

Short answers to 8 common questions

How do I get in?

Ask Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified which school serves your address. See the details ↓

Is Bernhard Marks a good elementary school?

Bernhard Marks Elementary has a Scope Score of 72. It scored higher than 29 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools (Developing, 29th percentile, spring 2026). See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 19 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 17 in 100 at the average California elementary school. 4.8% of students (23 of 484) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. See the details ↓

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 5 scored 9 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 19 points higher, which the state calls Accelerated.

  • Included in this measure: 290 students

See the details ↓

How does grade 5 do in English?

Grade 5 stands apart in English: 39% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 27% across grades 3–5 here, spring 2026. Each grade is a different group of students, so this describes one year’s class. See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 25% of low-income students in grades 3–5 at Bernhard Marks Elementary in Dos Palos scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 36% for the same group across California. See the details ↓

Where does it lead?

In the 2015–16 federal attendance-boundary survey, most of Bernhard Marks Elementary's attendance area fell inside the attendance area of Bryant 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 doesn’t guarantee placement; confirm your address with the district.

  • Bryant Middle: Scope Score 66, Needs Support, 3rd percentile among California’s regular public and charter middle schools, 2026 results

See the details ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Questions to ask, ready to copy. See the details ↓

The full record

Source records

This page is built from 12 sets of records from public data sources. Every figure keeps its source, grades, year and count.

Data updated

October 15, 2026

Record sets on this page
12
Sources
California Department of EducationU.S. Census Bureau
State test years
2017–2026

Results

Students

Money and staff

Place, downloads and method

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #4,060 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math9%3842%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math25%3623%
5th graders in 2026 against 3rd graders in 2024 (partly different children)+83 scale-score pts6220%
Chronically absent19 in 100465%
Suspension rate4.8% (23 of 484)245%
English learners: top level9%395%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. Growth is the change between the school's earlier and later grade-level groups, in scale-score points; it does not follow the same students.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–267229#4060California elementary schools · 5,726 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–1913 in 1006.9% (41 of 594)−8
2021–22not on filenot on file+7
2022–23not on filenot on file+9
2023–2417 in 1003.3% (17 of 513)+1
2024–2519 in 1001.4% (7 of 513)+7
2025–2619 in 1004.8% (23 of 484)+10

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English45112%27%
2026 · Math4557%24%
2025 · English4748%26%
2025 · Math4846%22%
2024 · English4688%22%
2024 · Math4796%19%
2023 · English4939%22%
2023 · Math4956%20%
2022 · English4768%24%
2022 · Math4743%14%
2019 · English5498%25%
2019 · Math5497%20%
2018 · English5316%21%
2018 · Math5304%16%
2017 · English5396%20%
2017 · Math5394%15%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 3 · English16620%
2025 · Grade 4 · English13326%
2025 · Grade 5 · English17531%
2025 · Grade 3 · Math17021%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math13520%
2025 · Grade 5 · Math17925%
2024 · Grade 3 · English13425%
2024 · Grade 4 · English17316%
2024 · Grade 5 · English16126%
2024 · Grade 3 · Math13723%
2024 · Grade 4 · Math17611%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math16623%
2023 · Grade 3 · English17122%
2023 · Grade 4 · English16817%
2023 · Grade 5 · English15429%
2023 · Grade 3 · Math17219%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math16812%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math15529%
2022 · Grade 3 · English16018%
2022 · Grade 4 · English15722%
2022 · Grade 5 · English15932%
2022 · Grade 3 · Math15512%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math15617%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math16313%
2019 · Grade 3 · English18428%
2019 · Grade 4 · English18024%
2019 · Grade 5 · English18522%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math18422%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math18026%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math18512%
2018 · Grade 3 · English17422%
2018 · Grade 4 · English18418%
2018 · Grade 5 · English17322%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math17418%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math18419%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math17210%
2017 · Grade 3 · English17518%
2017 · Grade 4 · English16620%
2017 · Grade 5 · English19823%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math17419%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math16714%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math19814%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide1426%18%60%15%

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.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income41025%0−11
Hispanic or Latino38726%0−10
English learners12411%0−2
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students+9290Accelerated+19290Accelerated
Low-income+9258Accelerated+18258Accelerated
Hispanic or Latino+6243Accelerated+19243Accelerated
English-only students+6175not categorized+17175not categorized
English learners+1091Accelerated+1891Accelerated
English learners only−360not categorized+760not categorized
Students with disabilities−243Average−143Average
White+1934Accelerated+1734Accelerated
Recently reclassified as fluent in English+3131not categorized+3631not categorized

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 5. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure, and grade 5 against the same school’s grade 3 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 5 in 2026 against grade 3 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 3
8%
exceeded standard · 25% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 134 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 5
14%
Advanced · 39% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 140 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 136 (school-grade cohort proxy).

These paired percentages describe English results for grade groups at this school in two years. The groups are not matched students. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different school-level scale-score proxy across English and math; California's matched-student model is a separate measure.

California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English+9 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 5

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 5

290 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, English: +9 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math+19 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 5

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4 and 5

290 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, math: +19 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4 and 5, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 19 in 100 → 2025–26 · 19 in 100 · 0 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 1.4% (7 of 513) → 2025–26 · 4.8% (23 of 484) · +3.4 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female12 in 10021 in 100+9 in 100
Male14 in 10017 in 100+3 in 100
Black or African American2 of 13——
Hispanic or Latino12 in 10019 in 100+7 in 100
American Indian or Alaska Native3 of 21——
White13 of 6913 of 48—
Students with disabilities23 of 8918 of 77—
English learners8 in 10015 in 100+7 in 100
Homeless5 of 10——
Military families1 of 132 of 22—
Low-income14 in 10021 in 100+7 in 100
All students13 in 10019 in 100+6 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Where fewer than 100 students were counted, the cell shows the count and no change is printed. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$14,731 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 2,292 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$1,471 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 478

Central federal expenditures attributed here$1,222 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 478

District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,634 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 57%Instruction support 8%Student services 13%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 12%Other 1%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$23,141,71256.75%57%
Instruction support$3,324,5618.15%8%
Student services$5,393,94713.23%13%
Administration$3,741,6079.18%9%
Buildings & maintenance$4,699,42211.52%12%
Other$478,8881.17%1%
Total$40,780,136100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $40,780,136 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$14,731 per pupil
2020$14,312 per pupil
2019$13,281 per pupil
2018$12,104 per pupil
2017$12,102 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 93620 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 93620 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$45,456
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)11%
ZIP-area population9,927
Median age37.0 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 93620 →

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