Central Online Home: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Central Online Home posts 36% meeting the standard and 10.7% exceeding it, against 39% and 16.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 39 | 11% | 36% | — | 10.9% | 1.1% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Central Online Home scores 39 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 44th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
🤝 Culture First — Ask whether the low absenteeism and suspension numbers come from what the school does or from the community it serves — both can produce the same numbers, and only a visit tells you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “36% proficient” and call it done. Central Online Home deserves a closer read. The school sits in Fresno, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 34th to the 44th percentile since 2022 — past roughly 200 middle schools.
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 35% | 26% | 33% | 47% |
| Grade 8 | 40% | 25% | 34% | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 43% | 56% | 53% | 50% |
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 14% | 11% | 18% | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 20% | 8% | 14% | 38% |
| Grade 11 | 11% | 9% | 24% | 66% |
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- 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 Central Online Home in Fresno, 45.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Central Online Home outperforms its district average for low-income students by 4.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (51.1% Math proficient); Hispanic students (46.7% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 44 students tested.
9 of 14 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.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 4–6 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 9–12 students (18.2% vs 3.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Central Online Home serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$147 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 137 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 39% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 46
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 17 | 6% | 41% | 12% | 41% | 47% | −1 |
| Grade 8 | 17 | 6% | 24% | 24% | 47% | 29% | −17 |
| Grade 11 | 28 | 14% | 36% | 29% | 21% | 50% | +3 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 7 | 17 | 6% | 24% | 18% | 53% | 29% | −5 |
| Grade 8 | 16 | 25% | 13% | 31% | 31% | 38% | +5 |
| Grade 11 | 29 | 38% | 28% | 14% | 21% | 66% | +42 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 51 | 14% | 25% | 51% | 10% |
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 | 44 | 45.5% | +5 | +7 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 15 | 46.7% | +6 | +8 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Online Home ← | — | 39 | 10.7% | 35.9% | — | 1.1% |
| Cooper Middle | 1.7 mi | 33 | 10.4% | 30.7% | −3.7 | 8.9% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 31 | 34 | #1425 | 8.6% | 26.1% | 63.9% | 0.1% | +6.4pp |
| 2023 | 29 | 17 | #1811 | 2.6% | 17.6% | 10.1% | 0.3% | — |
| 2024 | 28 | 26 | #1629 | 2.1% | 25.0% | 15.5% | 0.8% | — |
| 2025 | 39 | 44 | #1246 | 10.7% | 35.9% | 10.9% | 1.1% | — |
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | — | 7.1% | — |
| Male | — | 8.0% | — |
| Asian | — | 7.1% | — |
| Black/African American | — | 23.1% | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | — | 7.1% | — |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 3.6% | — |
| English Learners | — | 10.0% | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | — | 8.5% | — |
| All Students | — | 7.4% | — |
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