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Bridges Preparatory Academy

Compton, CA · Grades 6-8 · 151 students · Los Angeles County Office of Education

No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.

30% 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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What this means for your family

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Math

9%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

30%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

151

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

6%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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The overall score is a starting point.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · 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%2022: 17%2023: 11%2024: 40%2025: 9%2022: 32%2023: 19%2024: 49%2025: 30%20222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2022: 17%2023: 11%2024: 40%2025: 9%2022: 32%2023: 19%2024: 49%2025: 30%2022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
202217%32%
202311%19%
202440%49%
20259%30%

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 2022 to 2025

Climbed from the 32nd to the 45th percentile since 2022 — past roughly 300 middle schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “28% proficient” and call it done. Bridges Preparatory Academy 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.

The headline number: 5.8% chronic absenteeism — versus 18.1% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.

As a charter, Bridges Preparatory Academy enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

143 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Bridges Preparatory Academy scores 34 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 45th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2022 · 32nd percentile · Scope Score 25 of 1002023 · 31st percentile · Scope Score 23 of 1002024 · 64th percentile · Scope Score 41 of 1002025 · 45th percentile · Scope Score 34 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathOrange(Declined Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 621%11%45%24%
Grade 732%34%11%51%
Grade 842%27%53%43%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 610%8%44%9%
Grade 79%31%21%32%
Grade 824%13%35%11%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in four of students here meet the standard. 9% clear it by a lot.

ELA38% met or exceeded
Exceeded 9%Met 29%Nearly Met 34%Not Met 28%
Math18% met or exceeded
Exceeded 10%Met 8%Nearly Met 34%Not Met 48%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2022–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school349%28%5.8%0.9%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%18.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3439
% Exceeded9%17%
% Met+28%40%
Growth
Absence5.8%18.1%
Suspension0.9%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 91st percentile in reading against the 63rd in math, among middle 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 middle schools in reading, and the 63rd in math. 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 middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — 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: +16 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 91st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.91st pctile · +16 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +5 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 63rd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.63rd pctile · +5 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

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard about even with the same group statewide.

At Bridges Preparatory Academy in Compton, 36.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 38.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Bridges Preparatory Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 1.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (17.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (40.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 26.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 126 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 28% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 28%, district —, state 40%28%
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 30%, district 35%, state 32%30% · +2 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 27%, district 28%, state 32%27% · −1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 26%, district 35%, state 42%26% · −2 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 30%, district 59%, state 44%30% · +2 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 11%, district 7%, state 11%11% · −17 vs school

6 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.

Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 30.8pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school.

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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 middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Hispanic or Latino students117 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +15 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 117 students.+15 pts · +17 vs typical
Low-income students115 studentsLow-income students, reading: +16 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 115 students.+16 pts · +19 vs typical
English Learner54 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +15 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 54 students.+15 pts · +20 vs typical
English Only53 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +12 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 53 students.+12 pts · +12 vs typical
Math
Hispanic or Latino students117 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 117 students.+6 pts · +12 vs typical
Low-income students115 studentsLow-income students, math: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 115 students.+7 pts · +12 vs typical
English Learner54 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +17 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 54 students.+17 pts · +20 vs typical
English Only53 studentsEnglish Only, math: 0 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 53 students.0 pts · +3 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 5 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 30 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher30 · district 21
Teaching staff5 teachers
Avg. experience11.4 years
Fully credentialed67%
First-year teachers20%
PrincipalAlejandro Gomez
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Teacher salary schedule$58,299 – $115,472
Principal salaryUp to $157,944
Superintendent salary$450,915

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 5.8%, district 22.1%, state 18.1%5.8% · −12.3pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.9%, district —, state 3.6%0.9% · −2.8pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2018–19

Its district spends $123,399 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $123,399, CA average $14,491$123,399 · district average
District averageCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 29%Instruction support 23%Student services 13%Administration 26%Buildings & maintenance 7%Other 2%

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, 2016–2019 — the newest published
2019$123,399 per pupil
2018$116,191 per pupil
2017$43,242 per pupil
2016$49,015 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 151 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 14% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino88.1% · district 71.6% · CA 56.1%
White0.7% · district 8.5% · CA 19.9%
Black9.9% · district 11.7% · CA 4.8%
Other1.3% · district 5.6% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch88.1% · CA 64%
Median income$73K · CA $85K
Median home value$575K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+8% · CA 35%
ZIP population50,659
Median age34 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

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School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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

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SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Bridges Preparatory AcademyCharterDeveloping9%28%School being viewed
Willowbrook MiddlePublicStrong45%78%0.5 mi
Davis MiddlePublicStrong23%53%1.2 mi
Whaley MiddlePublicStrong20%47%1.6 mi
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Is Bridges Preparatory Academy a good middle school?
Bridges Preparatory Academy has a Scope Score of 34 out of 100, placing it in the 45th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #1,191 statewide. 8.8% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 8.4 percentage points below the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 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 Bridges Preparatory Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 28.1% of students at Bridges Preparatory Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 8.8% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 19.4% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 8.8% 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. 286 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Bridges Preparatory Academy rank in California?
Bridges Preparatory Academy ranks #1,191 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 45th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 6 to grade 8 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 Bridges Preparatory Academy?
5.8% of students at Bridges Preparatory Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 0.9%, 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 Bridges Preparatory Academy compare to other schools in Compton?
Bridges Preparatory Academy scores 34/100 (45th percentile) among California middle 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 151 students. Use the schools in Compton page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Bridges Preparatory Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Bridges Preparatory Academy in Compton, 36.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 38.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Bridges Preparatory Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 1.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (17.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (40.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 26.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 126 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.

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How the Scope Score is calculated

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What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard8.8%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded28.1%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism5.8%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.9%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+10.4pp+1.5pp

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

Bridges Preparatory Academy: reading the evidence

Bridges Preparatory Academy posts 28% meeting the standard and 8.8% exceeding it, against 40% and 17.2% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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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.

Bridges Preparatory Academy is ranked #1,191 statewide · #6 of 12 in Los Angeles County Office of Education.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard8.8%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded28.1%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism5.8%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.9%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+10.4pp+1.5ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 17.2% · index 41 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 40.0% · index 41 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 68 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 12.5pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 61 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.8pp lower vs 2024
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)
↑ vs CA +1.5pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 6585%19%40%36%24%−22
Grade 75716%35%25%25%51%+3
Grade 8284%39%39%18%43%−3
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 6585%3%34%57%9%−26
Grade 75716%16%30%39%32%−2
Grade 8287%4%43%46%11%−21

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.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide280%14%75%11%

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.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged12636.5%−2−2
Hispanic/Latino12640.5%−10+2
English Learners3112.9%+4+2
03Nearest middle 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
Bridges Preparatory Academy ←348.8%28.1%+10.4pp0.9%
Willowbrook Middle0.5 mi6845.2%77.8%−0.8pp2.9%
Davis Middle1.2 mi5922.6%53.5%−6.6pp0.1%
Whaley Middle1.6 mi5320.1%46.9%−4.9pp0.5%
California average3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20222532#14424.5%22.9%10.5%0.6%+17.2pp
20232331#14643.9%20.6%2.5%0.5%+10.8pp
20244164#7778.3%34.8%18.3%1.7%-0.0pp
20253445#11918.8%28.1%5.8%0.9%+10.4pp
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.
05California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 05 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+16132Accelerated+5132Accelerated
Hispanic or Latino+15117Accelerated+6117Accelerated
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+16115Accelerated+7115Accelerated
English Learner+1554Accelerated+1754Accelerated
English Only+1253not categorised053not categorised
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+1628not categorised+1528not categorised
English Learners Only+1026not categorised+2026not categorised
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)+2418Exceptional+718Accelerated
Students with Disabilities+118Average+2618Exceptional
Black or African American+512Accelerated+212Average

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. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. 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=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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