Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En posts 43% meeting the standard against 36% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 56 | 17% | 43% | 100.0% | 47.3% | 26.6% | 0.6% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En scores 56 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 78th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “43% proficient” and call it done. Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En deserves a closer read. It sits at the 78th percentile of 2,160 California high schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En's low-income kids hit 58.8% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 63rd to the 78th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 300 high schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 43% of students meet the standard today, above the 37% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 56% | 31% | 62% | 71% | 63% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 18% | 1% | 25% | 18% | 23% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 43 are proficient by 11th grade → 100 graduate → 47 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En's most underrated number
58.8% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 7 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 extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- 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 Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En in San Fernando, 58.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En outperforms its district average for low-income students by 17.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (61.1% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 4.0 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 68 students tested.
5 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. 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
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.
$1,473 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 19% 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 High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 57
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 11 | 78 | 29% | 33% | 28% | 9% | 63% | +16 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 69 | 4% | 19% | 32% | 45% | 23% | −0 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 80 | 0% | 19% | 78% | 4% |
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 | 68 | 58.8% | +18 | +21 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 72 | 61.1% | +20 | +22 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Arts/Theatre/En ← | — | 56 | 16.9% | 43.0% | — | 0.6% |
| PUC Lakeview Charter High | 2.8 mi | 59 | 23.8% | 59.4% | — | 0.8% |
| Sylmar Biotech Health and Engineering Magnet | 1.8 mi | 59 | 19.1% | 54.0% | — | 0.7% |
| Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies-Social Justice | 0 mi | 54 | 10.0% | 35.4% | — | 0.6% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 52 | 63 | #750 | 10.0% | 36.9% | 17.2% | 1.4% | — |
| 2022 | 44 | 50 | #1046 | 3.6% | 16.4% | 36.5% | 1.0% | — |
| 2023 | 53 | 73 | #576 | 15.4% | 43.2% | 29.3% | 1.1% | — |
| 2024 | 54 | 75 | #527 | 18.5% | 44.6% | 25.0% | 0.8% | — |
| 2025 | 56 | 78 | #485 | 16.9% | 43.0% | 26.6% | 0.6% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 17.9% | 26.2% | +8.3pp |
| Male | 12.4% | 25.0% | +12.6pp |
| Black/African American | 22.7% | 33.3% | +10.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 15.6% | 24.5% | +8.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 19.0% | 25.8% | +6.8pp |
| English Learners | 23.5% | 47.1% | +23.6pp |
| Homeless | 21.1% | 46.2% | +25.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 16.2% | 26.0% | +9.8pp |
| All Students | 15.7% | 25.6% | +9.9pp |
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