Campbell School of Innovation: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Campbell School of Innovation posts 50% meeting the standard, and 26.5% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 52 | 26% | 50% | +3.5 | 10.8% | 2.7% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Campbell School of Innovation scores 52 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 70th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “50% proficient” and call it done. Campbell School of Innovation deserves a closer read. The school sits in Campbell, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, Campbell School of Innovation enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Slipped from the 82nd to the 70th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 50% meet the standard today, versus 62% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 59% | 68% | 50% | 51% | 45% |
| Grade 4 | 76% | 43% | 59% | 57% | 60% |
| Grade 5 | — | 67% | 56% | 57% | 56% |
| Grade 6 | — | 44% | 62% | 36% | 56% |
| Grade 7 | — | 53% | 52% | 58% | 47% |
| Grade 8 | — | — | 43% | 52% | 56% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 62% | 64% | 46% | 56% | 48% |
| Grade 4 | 52% | 46% | 57% | 49% | 49% |
| Grade 5 | — | 46% | 35% | 47% | 44% |
| Grade 6 | — | 34% | 40% | 25% | 52% |
| Grade 7 | — | 27% | 39% | 44% | 38% |
| Grade 8 | — | — | 20% | 27% | 42% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding rises 1.9pp across grades; the floor rises 10.7pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Campbell School of Innovation in Campbell, 22.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 28.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Campbell School of Innovation trails its district average for low-income students by 6.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (17.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (23.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 48.8 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 160 students tested.
6 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 9.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +7.0pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (20.0% vs 7.9%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The path below is estimated from nearby schools in the same district — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$332 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.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 815 students, this school is well above 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), 53% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 78
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 62
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 93 | 24% | 22% | 22% | 33% | 45% | +2 |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 38% | 23% | 14% | 26% | 60% | +15 |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 26% | 30% | 16% | 28% | 56% | +8 |
| Grade 6 | 82 | 23% | 33% | 21% | 23% | 56% | +10 |
| Grade 7 | 68 | 19% | 28% | 28% | 25% | 47% | −1 |
| Grade 8 | 72 | 24% | 32% | 22% | 22% | 56% | +9 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 96 | 24% | 24% | 17% | 35% | 48% | +2 |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 23% | 26% | 23% | 28% | 49% | +7 |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 25% | 19% | 31% | 25% | 44% | +9 |
| Grade 6 | 83 | 33% | 19% | 17% | 31% | 52% | +17 |
| Grade 7 | 69 | 20% | 17% | 20% | 42% | 38% | +4 |
| Grade 8 | 72 | 26% | 15% | 19% | 39% | 42% | +9 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 160 | 26% | 27% | 32% | 16% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 160 | 22.5% | −6 | −16 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 176 | 23.3% | −5 | −16 |
| White | 152 | 69.7% | −1 | +8 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell School of Innovation ← | — | 52 | 26.5% | 50.3% | +3.5 | 2.7% |
| Oster Elementary | 2.8 mi | 80 | 57.9% | 78.3% | +2.1 | 1.2% |
| Forest Hill Elementary | 1.5 mi | 78 | 60.0% | 81.0% | +8.0 | 1.1% |
| Bagby Elementary | 1.9 mi | 75 | 49.8% | 73.5% | +11.9 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 62 | 82 | #974 | 35.4% | 62.0% | 4.4% | 1.5% | — |
| 2022 | 51 | 78 | #1290 | 33.6% | 55.8% | 16.5% | 1.7% | -9.2pp |
| 2023 | 51 | 75 | #1454 | 28.8% | 50.6% | 16.8% | 4.5% | -2.1pp |
| 2024 | 48 | 65 | #1999 | 29.0% | 52.8% | 12.9% | 1.6% | -1.2pp |
| 2025 | 52 | 70 | #1741 | 26.5% | 50.3% | 10.8% | 2.7% | +3.5pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 16 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 5.9% | 10.6% | +4.7pp |
| Male | 1.8% | 10.1% | +8.3pp |
| Asian | 6.0% | 3.7% | -2.3pp |
| Black/African American | 0.0% | 16.7% | +16.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 6.0% | 15.6% | +9.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 3.9% | 11.6% | +7.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 0.0% | 19.5% | +19.5pp |
| English Learners | 8.2% | 14.1% | +5.9pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 11.3% | 16.4% | +5.1pp |
| All Students | 3.8% | 10.4% | +6.6pp |
| White | — | 14.3% | — |
| Homeless | — | 12.5% | — |
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