Challenger School of Sports and Fitness: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Challenger School of Sports and Fitness posts 36% meeting the standard and 14.5% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 38 | 15% | 36% | -9.3 | 24.9% | 4.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Challenger School of Sports and Fitness scores 38 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 36th percentile of 5,744 California elementary 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 “36% proficient” and call it done. Challenger School of Sports and Fitness deserves a closer read. The school sits in Victorville, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 25.3% of English learners met the ELA standard — versus 10.4% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 22nd to the 36th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 700 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 36% of students meet the standard today, above the 22% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 18% | 28% | 33% | 22% | 40% |
| Grade 4 | 22% | 31% | 38% | 34% | 38% |
| Grade 5 | 36% | 21% | 48% | 33% | 34% |
| Grade 6 | 40% | 38% | 30% | 44% | 45% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 24% | 27% | 34% | 21% | 42% |
| Grade 4 | 17% | 19% | 29% | 33% | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 15% | 12% | 22% | 17% | 29% |
| Grade 6 | 29% | 23% | 23% | 33% | 31% |
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 falls 5.6pp across grades; the floor slips 5.2pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 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 how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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.
How every group of students does here
At Challenger School of Sports and Fitness in Victorville, 36.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 28.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Challenger School of Sports and Fitness outperforms its district average for low-income students by 7.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (31.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (40.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 33.4 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 431 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 falls by 5.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +1.4pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$271 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 843 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), 25% 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 38
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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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 | 106 | 16% | 24% | 25% | 36% | 40% | −4 |
| Grade 4 | 128 | 19% | 19% | 18% | 45% | 38% | −7 |
| Grade 5 | 125 | 10% | 24% | 27% | 38% | 34% | −13 |
| Grade 6 | 119 | 14% | 30% | 31% | 24% | 45% | −2 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 105 | 19% | 23% | 26% | 32% | 42% | −4 |
| Grade 4 | 128 | 9% | 23% | 29% | 39% | 32% | −10 |
| Grade 5 | 126 | 13% | 15% | 28% | 44% | 29% | −7 |
| Grade 6 | 120 | 13% | 18% | 27% | 43% | 31% | −4 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 126 | 2% | 22% | 55% | 21% |
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 | 431 | 36.4% | +8 | −2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 346 | 40.8% | +8 | +2 |
| English Learners | 99 | 25.3% | +11 | +15 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Challenger School of Sports and Fitness ← | — | 38 | 14.5% | 35.7% | −9.3 | 4.1% |
| Gus Franklin Jr. | 0.4 mi | 50 | 17.1% | 44.6% | +6.1 | 3.1% |
| Dr. Ralph H. Baker 21st Century Learning Center | 0.6 mi | 38 | 8.3% | 21.4% | +12.5 | 6.0% |
| West Palms Conservatory | 2.4 mi | 26 | 12.7% | 32.4% | −9.9 | 4.7% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 32 | 22 | #4310 | 8.2% | 22.1% | 14.2% | 6.1% | +4.9pp |
| 2022 | 18 | 5 | #5435 | 7.5% | 22.9% | 36.6% | 3.4% | -10.4pp |
| 2023 | 37 | 45 | #3138 | 12.2% | 33.7% | 33.8% | 4.4% | +1.7pp |
| 2024 | 30 | 18 | #4705 | 10.3% | 26.7% | 26.7% | 4.4% | +3.3pp |
| 2025 | 38 | 36 | #3654 | 14.5% | 35.7% | 24.9% | 4.1% | -9.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14.2% | 24.7% | +10.5pp |
| Male | 14.2% | 25.7% | +11.5pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | — | — |
| Black/African American | 15.9% | 37.8% | +21.9pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 14.0% | 21.4% | +7.4pp |
| Two or More Races | 20.0% | 37.1% | +17.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 14.6% | 31.3% | +16.7pp |
| English Learners | 9.2% | 16.2% | +7.0pp |
| Foster Youth | 15.8% | 28.6% | +12.8pp |
| Homeless | 29.6% | 30.3% | +0.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 14.7% | 26.9% | +12.2pp |
| All Students | 14.2% | 25.2% | +11.0pp |
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