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Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter

El Dorado Hills, CA · Grades TK-12 · 180 students · Buckeye Union Elementary

High scores, healthy climate, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.

100% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 95% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

95%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

100%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

180

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

4%

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%2022: 100%2023: 100%2024: 100%2025: 95%2022: 96%2023: 96%2024: 98%2025: 100%20222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2022: 100%2023: 100%2024: 100%2025: 95%2022: 96%2023: 96%2024: 98%2025: 100%2022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
2022100%96%
2023100%96%
2024100%98%
202595%100%

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 2023 to 2025

Has held the 99th-percentile line every tested year since 2023.

Most rating sites would stop at “98% proficient” and call it done. Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter deserves a closer read. It sits at the 99th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.

The headline number: 87.8% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 21.4%.

As a charter, Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

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

Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter scores 97 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 99th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2023 · 99th percentile · Scope Score 96 of 1002024 · 99th percentile · Scope Score 85 of 1002025 · 99th percentile · Scope Score 97 of 100
ELABlue(Increased Significantly)MathBlue(Increased Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 396%100%95%100%
Grade 479%95%100%100%
Grade 5—92%100%100%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 3100%100%100%100%
Grade 4100%100%88%100%
Grade 5—100%100%86%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Nearly all of students here meet the standard. Four in five clear it by a lot.

ELA100% met or exceeded
Exceeded 84%Met 16%Nearly Met 0%Not Met 0%
Math97% met or exceeded
Exceeded 86%Met 10%Nearly Met 3%Not Met 0%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2023–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school9788%98%—4.0%2.0%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope9739
% Exceeded88%21%
% Met+98%43%
Growth——
Absence4.0%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: +27 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 99th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.99th pctile · +27 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +20 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 92nd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.92nd pctile · +20 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 Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter in El Dorado Hills, 100.0% of asian students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 88.6% district-wide and 74.4% statewide. Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter outperforms its district average for asian students by 11.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Asian students (100.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 24 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 98% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 98%, district —, state 43%98%
FemaleFemale: this school 100%, district 69%, state 44%100% · +2 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 100%, district 87%, state 72%100% · +2 vs school
MaleMale: this school 98%, district 70%, state 42%98% · −0 vs school

5 of 9 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
English Only40 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +31 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 40 students.+31 pts · +28 vs typical
Asian33 studentsAsian, reading: +27 scale-score points versus expectation, against +7 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 33 students.+27 pts · +20 vs typical
Math
English Only40 studentsEnglish Only, math: +23 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 40 students.+23 pts · +22 vs typical
Asian33 studentsAsian, math: +23 scale-score points versus expectation, against +16 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 33 students.+23 pts · +7 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 1 more group is 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 16 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher16 · district 27
Teaching staff36 teachers
Avg. experience16.5 years
Fully credentialed100%
PrincipalDavid Roth
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Teacher salary schedule$57,629 – $116,656
Principal salaryFrom $159,306
Superintendent salary$206,208

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

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

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 4.0%, district 5.8%, state 17.9%4.0% · −13.9pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 2.0%, district —, state 1.6%2.0% · +0.4pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–60.0%
TK/K2.3%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $8,524 per student, less than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.

$16 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: $8,524, CA average $14,491$8,524 · spent at this school
Federal share$16 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$14,962 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 64%Instruction support 8%Student services 9%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 10%

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

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$11,522 per pupil
2019$10,440 per pupil
2018$10,926 per pupil
2017$8,491 per pupil
2016$8,378 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

9% of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 180 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.

On the state's science test (CAST), 79% 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 Latino5.6% · district 16.3% · CA 56.1%
White16.1% · district 64.7% · CA 19.9%
Asian51.7% · district 6.3% · CA 10.2%
Black0.6% · district 1.2% · CA 4.8%
Other26.1% · district 11.5% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch8.9% · CA 64%
Median income$165K · CA $85K
Median home value$916K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+61% · CA 35%
ZIP population47,657
Median age46 years

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

Culture & philosophy

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

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Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion CharterCharterStrong88%98%School being viewed
Silva Valley ElementaryPublicStrong45%75%0.8 mi
Russell Ranch ElementaryPublicStrong51%79%1.8 mi
Oak Meadow ElementaryPublicStrong43%75%0.5 mi
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Is Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter a good elementary school?
Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter has a Scope Score of 97 out of 100, placing it in the 99th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #1 statewide. 87.8% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 66.4 percentage points above 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 Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 97.6% of students at Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 87.8% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 9.8% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 87.8% 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. 120 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter rank in California?
Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter ranks #1 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 99th 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 Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter?
4.0% of students at Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 2.0%. 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 Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter compare to other schools in El Dorado Hills?
Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter scores 97/100 (99th 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 180 students. Use the schools in El Dorado Hills page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter in El Dorado Hills, 100.0% of asian students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 88.6% district-wide and 74.4% statewide. Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter outperforms its district average for asian students by 11.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Asian students (100.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 24 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

How far the top scorers get carries this score.

87.8% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 21.4%.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard87.8%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded97.6%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism4.0%17.9%5%
Suspension rate2.0%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-7.2pp-2.9pp—

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

Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter: reading the evidence

Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter posts 87.8% exceeding the standard — versus 21.4% statewide — with climate numbers better than most. That doesn't make it perfect. It makes it worth a visit to find what numbers can't measure.

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 on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter is ranked #1 statewide · #1 of 11 in Buckeye Union Elementary.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard87.8%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded97.6%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism4.0%17.9%5%
Suspension rate2.0%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-7.2pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 21.4% · index 100 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 42.7% · index 91 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 73 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · → no change vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 1.6% · index 47 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 1.1pp higher vs 2024
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↓ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 32580%20%0%0%100%+57
Grade 42186%14%0%0%100%+55
Grade 514100%0%0%0%100%+52
Grade 62176%24%0%0%100%+54
Grade 76——————
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 32592%8%0%0%100%+55
Grade 42190%10%0%0%100%+59
Grade 51479%7%14%0%86%+51
Grade 62176%19%5%0%95%+61
Grade 76——————

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
Schoolwide1471%7%21%0%

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
Asian24100.0%+11+26
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
Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter ←—9787.8%97.6%−7.2pp—2.0%
Silva Valley Elementary0.8 mi7144.9%74.5%+1.5pp—1.4%
Russell Ranch Elementary1.8 mi6950.7%79.3%+5.9pp—0.5%
Oak Meadow Elementary0.5 mi6743.0%74.8%−4.9pp—0.9%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20239699#677.7%97.9%9.7%0.4%-3.8pp
20248599#4282.9%97.1%4.1%0.9%+2.4pp
20259799#187.8%97.6%4.0%2.0%-7.2pp
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.
What we can't show
  • — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female0.0%0.0%+0.0pp
Male4.3%1.0%-3.3pp
Asian0.0%0.0%+0.0pp
White5.6%0.0%-5.6pp
English Learners0.0%——
All Students2.2%0.5%-1.7pp
Two or More Races—0.0%—
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged—0.0%—
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+2760Exceptional+2060Exceptional
English Only+3140not categorised+2340not categorised
Asian+2733Exceptional+2333Exceptional
White+1414Accelerated+1414Accelerated

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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