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43%Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced
Public elementary school
No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
45% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 43% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.
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How archetypes are assigned →Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced
Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced
Total enrollment
Students absent 10% or more of school days
Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.
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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 →
Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.
| Year | Math | English |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 50% | 59% |
| 2022 | 23% | 21% |
| 2023 | 31% | 10% |
| 2024 | 37% | 44% |
| 2025 | 43% | 45% |
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.
Achievement-level percentages are not percentiles. “Developing” here is a test achievement level, separate from the SchoolScope performance band with the same name.
Most rating sites would stop at “40% proficient” and call it done. Chester deserves a closer read. Two in five of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
86 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked
Chester Elementary scores 35 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 47th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 40% meet the standard today, versus 57% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63% | 9% | 0% | 35% | 44% |
| Grade 4 | 63% | 53% | 36% | 27% | 25% |
| Grade 5 | 56% | 33% | 19% | 50% | 47% |
| Grade 6 | 46% | 28% | 40% | 45% | 58% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 52% | 23% | 46% | 35% | 52% |
| Grade 4 | 61% | 25% | 19% | 53% | 44% |
| Grade 5 | 48% | 24% | 15% | 38% | 29% |
| Grade 6 | 26% | 21% | 27% | 18% | 27% |
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 35 | 17% | 40% | — | 16.5% | 2.5% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 39 | 21% | 43% | — | 17.9% | 1.6% |
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 above 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.
Who shares in the school’s results?
At Chester Elementary in Chester, 46.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 30.6% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Chester Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 15.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (28.2% Math proficient); White students (46.8% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 39 students tested.
9 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
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.
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 2.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: -3.4pp.
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.
— 1 more group is 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.
What is it like to be a student here?
Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.
Average teacher experience in the published staffing record. It does not measure individual teacher effectiveness.
The share of students absent for at least 10% of their enrolled school days. Attendance reflects both school and out-of-school circumstances.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What sits behind the school experience?
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.
$2,055 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 →
Context — never part of the Scope Score
At 171 students, this school is much smaller than 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), 18% 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.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
What is the school’s approach?
School-stated approach · questions for your visit
A source-reviewed culture summary is not available for this profile yet. Ask how teaching, student support and family communication work day to day.
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What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?
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What are the alternatives?
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.
No nearby schools in this category are listed. The school being viewed stays visible for reference.
| School | Type | Performance band | Advanced | Proficient or Advanced | Distance | Select |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chester Elementary | Public | Developing | 17% | 40% | School being viewed |
Nearby public schools across grade levels, plus private options within 10 miles.
Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.
Which schools could serve my child?
School location and nearby schools do not establish attendance eligibility. Confirm boundaries and permit requirements with Plumas Unified.
District information →School website →No school established for this stage.
The road from this school ends at Chester Junior/Senior High, which teaches 8 AP subjects. That number describes past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Chester Junior/Senior High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 50% of Chester Junior/Senior High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.
Source: sabs_2016. Schools are grouped by grade stage. Nearby schools are not confirmed feeder links or address assignments. Verify the current path and eligibility with the district.
What should I do next?
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.
On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.
| What we weigh | Here | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 17.1% | 21.4% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 40.3% | 42.7% | 23% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 16.5% | 17.9% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 2.5% | 1.6% | 5% |
| Grade gap (G3→G5, different students) | -9.9pp | -2.9pp | — |
Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built
Chester posts 40% meeting the standard and 17.1% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.4% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.
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.
Explore the underlying data →Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
Chester Elementary is ranked #3,050 statewide · #1 of 5 in Plumas Unified.
| Factor | School | State | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exceeded standard | 17.1% | 21.4% | 42% |
| Met or exceeded | 40.3% | 42.7% | 23% |
| Chronic absenteeism | 16.5% | 17.9% | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 2.5% | 1.6% | 5% |
| Grade gap (G3→G5, different students) | -9.9pp | -2.9pp | not scored |
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27 | 26% | 19% | 33% | 22% | 44% | +1 |
| Grade 4 | 16 | 13% | 13% | 50% | 25% | 25% | −20 |
| Grade 5 | 17 | 12% | 35% | 35% | 18% | 47% | −1 |
| Grade 6 | 26 | 15% | 42% | 23% | 19% | 58% | +12 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27 | 22% | 30% | 26% | 22% | 52% | +6 |
| Grade 4 | 16 | 19% | 25% | 31% | 25% | 44% | +2 |
| Grade 5 | 17 | 12% | 18% | 53% | 18% | 29% | −6 |
| Grade 6 | 26 | 12% | 15% | 54% | 19% | 27% | −8 |
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) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 17 | 6% | 12% | 76% | 6% |
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 · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 39 | 46.2% | +16 | +8 |
| White | 47 | 46.8% | +9 | −15 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chester Elementary ← | — | 35 | 17.1% | 40.3% | −9.9pp | — | 2.5% |
| California average | — | 39 | 21.4% | 42.7% | −2.9pp | — | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 40 | 58 | #2279 | 22.4% | 57.2% | 25.6% | 2.1% | -5.4pp |
| 2022 | 21 | 19 | #4599 | 8.4% | 27.9% | 61.9% | 3.8% | +12.7pp |
| 2023 | 14 | 4 | #5478 | 4.6% | 22.7% | 51.5% | 7.7% | -5.8pp |
| 2024 | 40 | 58 | #2397 | 12.0% | 39.7% | 18.0% | 1.7% | +8.5pp |
| 2025 | 35 | 47 | #3050 | 17.1% | 40.3% | 16.5% | 2.5% | -9.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 21.2% | 14.6% | -6.6pp |
| Male | 34.5% | 17.3% | -17.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 43.8% | 16.1% | -27.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 40.0% | 5.3% | -34.7pp |
| White | 25.7% | 18.4% | -7.3pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 27.6% | 21.1% | -6.5pp |
| Homeless | 45.0% | 11.5% | -33.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 30.4% | 18.8% | -11.6pp |
| All Students | 28.3% | 16.1% | -12.2pp |
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | +11 | 54 | Accelerated | +12 | 54 | Accelerated |
| English Only | +10 | 52 | not categorised | +11 | 52 | not categorised |
| White | +11 | 37 | Accelerated | +6 | 37 | Accelerated |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | +9 | 27 | Accelerated | +9 | 27 | Accelerated |
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 2026-09-08
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