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Cameron Elementary

Barstow, CA · Grades TK-6 · 436 students · Barstow Unified

A closer look at learning, opportunity and fit.

20% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 25% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

25%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

20%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

436

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

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Students absent 10% or more of school days

What are you trying to decide?

The overall score is a starting point.

Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.

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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 →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 13%2022: 19%2023: 11%2024: 17%2025: 25%2019: 23%2022: 26%2023: 15%2024: 22%2025: 20%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 13%2022: 19%2023: 11%2024: 17%2025: 25%2019: 23%2022: 26%2023: 15%2024: 22%2025: 20%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201913%23%
202219%26%
202311%15%
202417%22%
202525%20%

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

Has stayed near the bottom percentile since 2019.

A missing score is not a judgment, and it is not a claim about what the state published. It means the composite a Scope Score, band and rank are all built from isn't on file for this school this year — the honest move is to say so, and to show whatever results are on file rather than guess at a number.

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 20% meet the standard today, versus 24% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 3rd percentile · Scope Score 15 of 1002022 · 12th percentile · Scope Score 18 of 1002023 · 6th percentile · Scope Score 16 of 1002024 · bottom percentile · Scope Score 9 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathYellow(Increased Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 333%34%12%31%20%
Grade 440%21%22%18%38%
Grade 513%19%20%11%—
Grade 626%30%25%——
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 323%26%12%32%25%
Grade 430%21%22%27%34%
Grade 53%13%9%0%—
Grade 619%9%16%——
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Where its students land

ELA28% met or exceeded
Exceeded 11%Met 17%Nearly Met 25%Not Met 48%
Math29% met or exceeded
Exceeded 11%Met 18%Nearly Met 21%Not Met 50%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 50th 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 about at 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: +1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 49th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.49th pctile · +1 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 51st percentile of 7,518 reported schools.51st pctile · +1 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 behind the same group statewide.

At Cameron Elementary in Barstow, 27.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 14.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Cameron Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 12.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (28.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (34.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 17.2 percentage points for black students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 138 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 11 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 28% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 28%, district —, state 43%28%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 28%, district 12%, state 32%28% · −1 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 35%, district 14%, state 32%35% · +7 vs school
MaleMale: this school 29%, district 14%, state 42%29% · +1 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 27%, district 14%, state 44%27% · −1 vs school
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: this school 12%, district 8%, state 26%12% · −16 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 27%, district 7%, state 11%27% · −1 vs school

7 of 14 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 students51 studentsLow-income students, reading: +1 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 51 students.+1 pts · +1 vs typical
English Only48 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 48 students.+3 pts · 0 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students35 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.+6 pts · +5 vs typical
Math
Low-income students51 studentsLow-income students, math: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 51 students.+3 pts · +4 vs typical
English Only48 studentsEnglish Only, math: −1 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 48 students.−1 pts · −2 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students35 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +8 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.+8 pts · +9 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 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 24 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher24 · district 24
Teaching staff20 teachers
Avg. experience17.3 years
Fully credentialed86%
Intern / emergency permit4.3%
PrincipalBrent Leslie
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$57,952 – $125,965
Principal salary$133,771 – $148,934
Superintendent salary$201,490

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $17,007 per student, more 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.

$1,232 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: $17,007, CA average $14,491$17,007 · spent at this school
Federal share$1,232 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,973 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 62%Instruction support 11%Student services 10%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 7%

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$12,633 per pupil
2019$12,662 per pupil
2018$12,804 per pupil
2017$11,482 per pupil
2016$10,964 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

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

Hispanic or Latino53.9% · district 58.6% · CA 56.1%
White9.9% · district 14.3% · CA 19.9%
Black28.0% · district 18.1% · CA 4.8%
Other8.3% · district 8.6% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch89.7% · CA 64%
Median income$62K · CA $85K
Median home value$246K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+13% · CA 35%
ZIP population33,954
Median age34 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?

Ask a current family: “When your child needs help, how does the school respond?”

Educator voices

What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?

Ask an educator: “How do you adapt a typical day for children with different needs?”

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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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Schools across the K–12 journey

Barstow HighScope 38direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Barstow High, which sent 5 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 10 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Barstow High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 62% of Barstow High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

5 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 10 AP subjects taught → full record on Barstow 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

With no score to read, a visit does the heavy lifting: ask about class sizes, teacher tenure, and where last year's students went next.

  • Ask about typical class sizes and the student-teacher ratio.
  • Ask how long teachers have stayed at the school.
  • Ask where recent graduates or transfers went next.
  • Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom, and watch how a lesson actually runs.

Use the published evidence to prepare questions, then verify fit and access with the school.

Behind the evidence

Inspect the full record

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.

A closer look at the evidence

Cameron Elementary: reading the evidence

Cameron is an elementary school in Barstow. We publish no Scope Score, band or rank for it this year — the composite they are all built from isn't on file. Here's what we can show.

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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SchoolScope scores and verdicts are our interpretation of public California Department of Education data — independent analysis, not an official rating. How we analyze · Request a correction

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