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Castle Rock

Crescent City, CA · Grades TK-12 · 315 students · Del Norte County Office of Education

The scores are below where anyone wants them. Here's what they don't tell you.

17% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 8% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictDel Norte County Office of Education
PrincipalJennifer Larson
GradesTK-12
Enrollment315 students

Math

8%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

17%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

315

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

11%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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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%2022: 10%2023: 8%2024: 8%2025: 8%2022: 10%2023: 17%2024: 38%2025: 17%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2022: 10%2023: 8%2024: 8%2025: 8%2022: 10%2023: 17%2024: 38%2025: 17%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
2019——
202210%10%
20238%17%
20248%38%
20258%17%

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

Has stayed near the 13th percentile since 2022.

Most rating sites would stop at “13% proficient” and call it done. Castle Rock deserves a closer read. Two-thirds of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.

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

160 tested · 1 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Castle Rock scores 22 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 13th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2022 · 11th percentile · Scope Score 18 of 1002023 · 20th percentile · Scope Score 22 of 1002024 · 21st percentile · Scope Score 26 of 1002025 · 13th percentile · Scope Score 22 of 100
ELAOrange(Maintained)MathRed(Declined Significantly)
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 4—0%31%27%—
Grade 5—7%17%38%17%
Grade 6—21%31%17%13%
Grade 729%42%27%14%22%
Grade 824%39%24%9%29%
Grade 1141%29%31%39%41%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 4—15%13%18%—
Grade 5—7%8%8%8%
Grade 6—4%13%0%7%
Grade 74%5%14%10%12%
Grade 86%11%9%4%8%
Grade 116%0%8%7%8%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in ten of students here meet the standard. 4% clear it by a lot.

ELA29% met or exceeded
Exceeded 6%Met 24%Nearly Met 27%Not Met 44%
Math9% met or exceeded
Exceeded 2%Met 7%Nearly Met 15%Not Met 77%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2022–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school224%13%—11.2%1.0%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope2239
% Exceeded4%21%
% Met+13%43%
Growth——
Absence11.2%17.9%
Suspension1.0%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 22nd 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 below 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: −4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 31st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.31st pctile · −4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −14 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 13th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.13th pctile · −14 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 Castle Rock in Crescent City, 27.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 24.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Castle Rock outperforms its district average for low-income students by 3.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (6.9% Math proficient); White students (39.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 8.6 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 104 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 10 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 20% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 20%, district —, state 43%20%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 17%, district 15%, state 32%17% · −2 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 27%, district 25%, state 56%27% · +8 vs school
MaleMale: this school 24%, district 20%, state 42%24% · +4 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 16%, district 19%, state 44%16% · −3 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 19%, district 18%, state 32%19% · −0 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 4%, district 2%, state 15%4% · −15 vs school

8 of 15 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.

ShowHide California's growth model by student group
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 Only58 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −6 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 58 students.−6 pts · −9 vs typical
Low-income students43 studentsLow-income students, reading: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 43 students.−3 pts · −3 vs typical
White36 studentsWhite, reading: −4 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 36 students.−4 pts · −9 vs typical
Math
English Only58 studentsEnglish Only, math: −16 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 58 students.−16 pts · −17 vs typical
Low-income students43 studentsLow-income students, math: −11 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 43 students.−11 pts · −10 vs typical
White36 studentsWhite, math: −12 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 36 students.−12 pts · −17 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 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 23 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher23 · district 23
Teaching staff17 teachers
Avg. experience16.8 years
Fully credentialed30%
PrincipalJennifer Larson
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$54,453 – $101,288
Principal salary$119,973 – $138,335
Superintendent salary$215,540

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 11.2%, district 11.2%, state 17.9%11.2% · −6.7pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 1.0%, district —, state 1.6%1.0% · −0.6pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–64.0%
Grades 7–81.7%
Grades 9–123.0%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2019–20

It spends $15,312 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $15,312, CA average $14,491$15,312 · spent at this school
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 31%Instruction support 20%Student services 25%Administration 22%Buildings & maintenance 2%

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$20,513 per pupil
2019$24,801 per pupil
2018$23,236 per pupil
2017$12,082 per pupil
2016$13,100 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Two-thirds 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.

On the state's science test (CAST), 15% 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 Latino22.5% · district 23.1% · CA 56.1%
White55.2% · district 53.2% · CA 19.9%
Asian1.9% · district 1.8% · CA 10.2%
Black0.3% · district 0.6% · CA 4.8%
Other20.0% · district 21.3% · CA 9.0%
GenderFemale 56.5% · Male 42.5% · Non-binary 0.9%
Free or reduced lunch72.7% · CA 64%
Median income$67K · CA $85K
Median home value$351K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+23% · CA 35%
ZIP population22,291
Median age40 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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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.

SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Castle RockCharterNeeds Support4%13%School being viewed
Uncharted Shores AcademyCharterDeveloping11%31%1.3 mi
Mary Peacock ElementaryPublicDeveloping10%29%0.6 mi
Joe Hamilton ElementaryPublicNeeds Support5%16%0.9 mi
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Frequently asked questions

Is Castle Rock a good elementary school?
Castle Rock has a Scope Score of 22 out of 100, placing it in the 13th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #4,951 statewide. 4.2% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 17.2 percentage points below 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 Castle Rock's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 12.5% of students at Castle Rock met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 4.2% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 8.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 4.2% 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. 24 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Castle Rock rank in California?
Castle Rock ranks #4,951 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 13th 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 Castle Rock?
11.2% of students at Castle Rock are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 1.0%, 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 Castle Rock compare to other schools in Crescent City?
Castle Rock scores 22/100 (13th 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 315 students. Use the schools in Crescent City page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Castle Rock serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Castle Rock in Crescent City, 27.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 24.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Castle Rock outperforms its district average for low-income students by 3.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (6.9% Math proficient); White students (39.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 8.6 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 104 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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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.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 4 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard4.2%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded12.5%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism11.2%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.0%1.6%5%

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

Castle Rock: reading the evidence

Castle Rock posts low test scores — and suspensions run below the state rate (1.0% vs 1.6%). If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

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.

Castle Rock is ranked #4,951 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard4.2%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded12.5%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism11.2%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.0%1.6%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 36 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 31 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 61 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 0.7pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 55 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 0.7pp lower vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 310——————
Grade 48——————
Grade 5128%8%0%83%17%−31
Grade 6150%13%40%47%13%−33
Grade 7274%19%22%56%22%−25
Grade 8244%25%21%50%29%−17
Grade 11649%31%31%28%41%−8
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 310——————
Grade 48——————
Grade 5120%8%17%75%8%−27
Grade 6150%7%27%67%7%−28
Grade 7264%8%15%73%12%−22
Grade 8244%4%29%63%8%−24
Grade 11632%6%5%87%8%−16

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
Schoolwide1074%11%70%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.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged10427.9%+3−10
White6339.7%+4−22
Hispanic/Latino2138.1%+2−1
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
Castle Rock ←—224.2%12.5%——1.0%
Uncharted Shores Academy1.3 mi3311.2%31.1%+24.4pp—0.2%
Mary Peacock Elementary0.6 mi299.6%28.6%+9.6pp—1.5%
Joe Hamilton Elementary0.9 mi215.2%15.9%+7.2pp—5.7%
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
20221811#50491.1%9.4%14.0%0.5%-6.2pp
20232220#45643.6%17.2%13.7%1.4%—
20242621#45166.1%22.9%11.9%1.7%—
20252213#49514.2%12.5%11.2%1.0%—
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
  • — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
  • — 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 10 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female4.7%2.2%-2.5pp
Male9.5%3.3%-6.2pp
Hispanic/Latino4.9%3.3%-1.6pp
American Indian/Alaska Native9.2%7.0%-2.2pp
Two or More Races7.0%3.5%-3.5pp
White6.5%1.4%-5.1pp
Students with Disabilities9.1%1.2%-7.9pp
English Learners0.0%0.0%+0.0pp
Homeless7.7%2.8%-4.9pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged8.7%3.1%-5.6pp
All Students6.7%2.7%-4.0pp
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−463Average−1463Moderate
English Only−658not categorised−1658not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−343Average−1143Moderate
White−436Average−1236Moderate
Hispanic or Latino+418Average−1518Moderate
Students with Disabilities−3013Minimal−3613Minimal

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 2026-09-27

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