Charter school · Palm Springs Unified · Palm Springs, California

Cielo Vista Charter — Rating & test scores

Palm Springs · K–8 · 824 students (2024–25)

650 South Paseo Dorotea, 92264cvc.psusd.us ↗(760) 416-8250
55thpercentileSolid

Top: Palm Springs Unified’s other 16 scored elementary schools. Bottom: California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools by Scope Score, spring 2026 tests. How it’s built →

Scope Score
38

Weighted composite · 2025–26
A weighted mix of six measures.

See this school’s score factors ↓
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100

Above California in English, well above in math: 54% and 52% scored Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5, spring 2026, against 46% and 42%.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 286
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 3, 4 and 5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English and 1,211,701 in math tested).

From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”).

For grades 6–8, the standing among California middle schools is in Academic achievement ↓

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39 of 858 students missed 10% or more of school days in 2025–26, against 25 in 100 at the average Palm Springs Unified elementary school.

Sources
The sentence above
CDE chronic absenteeism file, 2025–26. All students counted for chronic absence (CDE’s eligible enrollment): 858. District and California figures are averages of school rates (17 Palm Springs Unified schools; 5,726 scored California elementary schools), our calculation.

Common questions

How do I get in?

Ask Cielo Vista Charter how it admits students. Charter schools set their own enrollment steps and dates. Evidence ↓

Is Cielo Vista Charter a good school?

Cielo Vista Charter scores higher than 55 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools: 55th percentile, Solid, spring 2026.

  • Grades 6–8: higher than 68 in 100 California middle schools we score (68th percentile, Solid, spring 2026)

Evidence ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 4 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 25 in 100 at the average Palm Springs Unified elementary school. 2.4% of students (21 of 865) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. Evidence ↓

More questions (4)

Did students here score above what the state expected?

In English, about as expected; in math, below what the state expected. In 2025, students here in grades 4–8 scored 0 points against the state’s expected score in English, which the state calls Average. In math, they scored −9 points, which it calls Moderate.

  • Included in this measure: 499 students in English, 498 in math

Evidence ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 49% of low-income students in grades 3–8 at Cielo Vista Charter in Palm Springs scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 37% for the same group across California. Evidence ↓

What does its own plan pay for?

In its 2026–27 plan, $4.1 million is planned for 15 funded actions in 4 goals. These are planned amounts; the charter school reports what it spent in a later plan. Evidence ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Next steps, ready to copy. Evidence ↓

Academic achievement

How did students here do on state tests?

Above California in English; well above it in math.

State tests (CAASPP), spring 2026

In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 54% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 52% in math, against 46% and 42% across California.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 286
Comparison
California: CDE’s grades 3–5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English, 1,211,701 in math tested). The comparisons use the same grades and year.
AdvancedProficientBelow the standard

English

Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 286 tested

Advanced
25%
Proficient
29%
Below the standard
46%
This school54%
California46%
Palm Springs Unified34%

54% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.

Math

Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 286 tested

Advanced
23%
Proficient
29%
Below the standard
48%
This school52%
California42%
Palm Springs Unified26%

52% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.

Results for each grade, spring 2026English and math · grades 3–8 · every level, with tested counts

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced51%54%57%
Advanced23%26%26%
Proficient28%28%31%
Developing level29%23%26%
Minimal20%23%17%
Tested949696
California44%46%49%
Difference+7+8+8
English, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced50%68%58%
Advanced21%26%26%
Proficient29%42%32%
Developing level32%18%26%
Minimal18%14%16%
Tested127115103
California48%51%49%
Difference+2+17+9

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced55%53%47%
Advanced24%25%20%
Proficient31%28%27%
Developing level25%31%32%
Minimal20%16%21%
Tested949696
California47%42%37%
Difference+8+11+10
Math, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced31%50%34%
Advanced13%24%17%
Proficient18%26%17%
Developing level30%26%23%
Minimal39%24%43%
Tested127115103
California37%38%36%
Difference−6+12−2

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

New to these scores? Read CAASPP scores explained: how to read your child’s report →

How do the middle grades do?

Above California in English; near it in math. In grades 6–8, spring 2026, 58% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 38% in math, against 49% and 37% across California. The middle grades are placed separately: 68th percentile (Solid) among California’s middle schools.

English

Grades 6–8 · spring 2026 · 345 tested

Advanced
24%
Proficient
34%
Below the standard
42%
This school58%
California49%
Palm Springs Unified35%

58% Proficient or Advanced in grades 6–8.

Math

Grades 6–8 · spring 2026 · 345 tested

Advanced
18%
Proficient
20%
Below the standard
62%
This school38%
California37%
Palm Springs Unified20%

38% Proficient or Advanced in grades 6–8.

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English went from 57% to 54% and math from 55% to 52%.

English · top two levels · grades 3–5

202557%252 tested
→
202654%286 tested

This school

California, same grades46% → 46%2025 → 2026 · 1,232,086 → 1,208,894 tested

Math · top two levels · grades 3–5

202555%251 tested
→
202652%286 tested

This school

California, same grades41% → 42%2025 → 2026 · 1,241,652 → 1,211,701 tested

Each year is a different group of students.

Did students here score above what the state expected?

In English, about as expected; in math, below what the state expected. California sets an expected score for each student from that student’s own score the year before. In 2025, students here in grades 4–8 scored 0 points against that expected score in English, which the state calls Average. In math, they scored −9 points, which it calls Moderate.

Source
Source
CDE growth model, 2025
Students
students with scores in both years in grades 4–8: 499 in English, 498 in math
Comparison
Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

Grades 4–8 · 2025 · 499 students in English, 498 in math, with scores in both years

Points above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores.

0 pts

English

The state calls it Average, the third of its five growth levels.

−9 pts

Math

The state calls it Moderate, the second of its five growth levels.

Ask: How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?

All four levelsThe state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal, with tested counts
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 3–5 · This school25%29%26%20%286
English, grades 3–5 · California24%22%21%33%1,208,894
English, grades 3–5 · Palm Springs Unified14%20%24%42%4,344
Math, grades 3–5 · This school23%29%29%19%286
Math, grades 3–5 · California21%21%25%33%1,211,701
Math, grades 3–5 · Palm Springs Unified10%16%26%48%4,352
English, grades 6–8 · This school24%34%26%16%345
English, grades 6–8 · California19%30%23%28%1,254,039
English, grades 6–8 · Palm Springs Unified10%25%26%39%4,316
Math, grades 6–8 · This school18%20%27%35%345
Math, grades 6–8 · California21%16%23%40%1,254,800
Math, grades 6–8 · Palm Springs Unified8%12%25%55%4,316

Below the standard combines the state’s Developing and Minimal levels, its two lowest. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2026. The state comparison combines CDE’s rows for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation). The district row combines its public schools in the same grades, weighted by students tested.

English and math results for the tested grades. These do not measure the experience in kindergarten or the early grades.

Each grade’s results: English ↑ · Math ↑

Results since 20178 tested years shown · English and math have been above California in every tested year since 2017

Chart and table: 2017–2026.

English top two levels, grades 3–5
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202654%46%
Math top two levels, grades 3–5
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202652%42%

The lines break across the COVID years, when state testing was waived or optional.

In grades 3–5, the share at the state’s top two levels in English went from 58% in 2017 to 54% in 2026. In math, it went from 53% in 2017 to 52% in 2026. Each year is a different group of students.

Each year’s results and tested counts

English · top two levels · grades 3–5
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201758%
368 tested		45%
1,384,680 tested
201866%
361 tested		49%
1,346,907 tested
201967%
300 tested		50%
1,332,547 tested
202255%
251 tested		45%
1,260,830 tested
202356%
261 tested		44%
1,247,801 tested
202457%
260 tested		45%
1,235,509 tested
202557%
252 tested		46%
1,232,086 tested
202654%
286 tested		46%
1,208,894 tested
Math · top two levels · grades 3–5
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201753%
368 tested		40%
1,392,040 tested
201861%
361 tested		42%
1,352,321 tested
201958%
300 tested		44%
1,338,625 tested
202244%
251 tested		38%
1,265,943 tested
202351%
261 tested		40%
1,256,519 tested
202449%
261 tested		41%
1,249,262 tested
202555%
251 tested		41%
1,241,652 tested
202652%
286 tested		42%
1,211,701 tested
How the state’s growth measure worksPoints above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored right at that expected score, and in math 9 points below it. Unlike the growth in our Scope Score, it follows the same students from one year to the next.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Our Scope Score measures growth another way. It compares the latest grade 5 scores here with the school’s grade 3 scores two years earlier (partly different children), then places that change among California schools at the same level. The state’s measure counts only students who took California’s test the year before, so the two can point different ways.

What you can do

Who can act on Cielo Vista Charter’s results?

Cielo Vista Charter’s own board decides its plan.

The state hasn’t placed Cielo Vista Charter in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source 

Where is its yearly plan?

Cielo Vista Charter is a charter school that CDE lists as locally funded, through its district.

What its plan pays for ↓

Palm Springs Unified authorized this charter; its current term ends June 30, 2028.

Authorizer from the California Department of Education’s charter term file; term from its Charter School Database, checked October 22, 2026. Source 

Reading screening in kindergarten through grade 2What the law requires, and what to ask

California law requires schools to screen kindergartners through second graders for reading difficulties every year, with some exceptions. You get notice at least 15 days before, results within 45 days, and can opt out in writing.

Kindergartners can’t be screened before the 91st school day; transitional kindergarten isn’t covered.

If screening shows your child may be at risk for reading difficulties, the school must provide supports. That result isn’t a diagnosis, and screening can’t be used to delay a special-education evaluation.

Ask how many K–2 students screening found at risk last year, and how many got extra reading help.

California Education Code § 53008. Source 

Life at school

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

4 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2025–26.

State attendance and suspension records, 2025–26

That means they missed 10% or more of school days. At the average Palm Springs Unified elementary school, 25 in 100 were. 2.4% of students were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school.

Source
Source
CDE chronic absenteeism and suspension files, 2025–26
Students
chronic absence: 39 of 858 students counted for it; suspension: 21 of 865 students enrolled during the year
Comparison
Each comparison is the rate at the average school (our average of school rates), not a pooled rate. Also: suspensions at the average Palm Springs Unified elementary school 1.2%.

Chronically absent, 2025–26

4 in 100This school
25 in 100At the average Palm Springs Unified elementary school
17 in 100At the average California elementary school

39 of 858 students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days.

Suspensions, 2025–26

2.4%

of students were suspended at least once (21 of 865). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Ask: When a student is suspended, what happens before and after, and who talks with the family?

Chronic absence by grade2025–26 · per 100 students, with counts
  • Grades K–3: not in the records we hold
  • Grades 4–6: 3 in 100, 11 of 320
  • Grades 7–8: 9 in 100, 19 of 220
Ask families and staff yourselfWhat to ask the people at Cielo Vista Charter

Ask current families how the school keeps them informed, and what happened when their child needed help. Ask staff how long teachers tend to stay.

Questions for your visit ↓

Have a child here? Answer 7 questionsResponder en español

Teach here? Tell us Palm Springs Unified’s email domain so staff can answer our workplace questions.

Every learner

How do kids like mine do here?

Hispanic or Latino and low-income students here scored well above the same groups across California in English.

Student groups, grades 3–8, spring 2026

Both groups score below California’s rate for all students statewide. 53% of Hispanic or Latino students scored Proficient or Advanced in English (grades 3–8, spring 2026), against 38% for the same group across California. Low-income students: 49% in English, against 37% for the same group across California. Every group’s math results are in the table below.

Source
Source
California Department of Education, CAASPP research file, spring 2026
Students
grades 3–8; each row gives its tested count. Low-income is CDE’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged”.
Comparison
California: the same group in the same grades, CDE’s rows for the whole state combined and weighted by students tested (our calculation).
Cielo Vista CharterSame group, CaliforniaAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students
  • Hispanic or Latino504 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 53%Same group, California 38%
  • Low-income425 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 49%Same group, California 37%
  • Students with disabilities35 tested26%Same group, California 18%
  • English learners70 tested17%Same group, California 12%

Proficient or Advanced, grades 3–8 English, spring 2026. In math the same groups run from 14% to 41%; every value is in the table below. English learners: grades 3–6 only. Students with disabilities: grades 3, 4 and 6 only.

Who are the students?

2025–26 · students counted
1. Hispanic or Latino: 81%2. White: 9%3. Filipino: 4%4. Two or more races: 2%5. Black or African American: 2%Unallocated share: 2%. 100% minus available shares; not a student group.Reported shares2025–26
  1. Hispanic or Latino81%
  2. White9%
  3. Filipino4%
  4. Two or more races2%
  5. Black or African American2%
  6. Asian—
  7. American Indian or Alaska Native—
  8. Pacific Islander—
  9. Not reported—
  10. Unallocated share2%
A dash means the share isn’t available; it isn’t zero. The unallocated share is what’s left after the shares we have; it isn’t a student group. Source and comparisons: the full student mix below.

Are English learners moving up on the state’s English test?

37% of English learners here moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026.

Spring 2025 to spring 2026 · English learners with state English test (ELPAC) scores in both years

This school · 40 of 109 English learners37%
Palm Springs Unified · 1,740 of 3,95744%
California · 355,274 of 748,91647%

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Data source: California Department of Education, 2026 Dashboard ↗.

Who are the families and teachers?

93%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 764 of 824. California: 63%.

42teachers, 2024–25

13 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25

5%in their first year, 2024–25

91%of teaching positions with proper credential and placement, 2021–22

Ask: How does the school keep Hispanic or Latino and low-income students on track as they move up through the grades?

All group results, district comparisons and sources
Proficient or Advancedgrades 3–8 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Palm Springs Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 425 tested
English49%+1831%+1237%
Math38%+1721%+1028%
Hispanic or Latino · 504 tested
English53%+2132%+1538%
Math41%+2021%+1328%
English learners · 70 tested · grades 3–6 only
English17%+611%+512%
Math14%+59%014%
Students with disabilities · 35 tested · grades 3, 4 and 6 only
English26%+179%+818%
Math26%+188%+917%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Palm Springs Unified, and across California. ■ Green: a group that is behind across California does much better here, by 10 points or more and more than twice the margin of error.

White students, 62 tested: no rate for grades 3, 5, 7 and 8 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, students of two or more races and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.

Full student mix, comparisons and sources, 2025–26
Students, 2025–26Here
Hispanic or Latino81%
White9%
Filipino4%
Two or more races2%
Black or African American2%
Asian—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—

Data source: California Department of Education chronic-absence file, 2025–26. Shares are of the students the file counts for attendance (CDE’s “eligible enrollment”); unavailable categories are shown as a dash.

How the credential rate is counted

CDE SARC report 2024–25, measured 2021–22: 91% of teaching positions, 36.5 properly credentialed teaching-position FTE out of 40 total position FTE. This measures positions, not individual teachers.

Next steps

What comes after Cielo Vista Charter, and how do I get in?

No assigned next school.

Cielo Vista Charter is a charter, so a student’s later schools follow the family’s home address, not this campus, unless the family applies elsewhere. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level.

  1. Grades K–8 · this school
    Cielo Vista Charter
  2. High
    Palm Springs High
    35th · Developing · 2025Inferred through another school · underlying source period unavailable; not a direct feeder

Historical links and nearby options · confirm your child’s address and current assignment with the district. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Middle-school links

  • Raymond Cree Middle

    Nearby same-district option · distance estimate, not a confirmed feeder

    34th percentile · Developing · middle · 2026

High-school links

  • Palm Springs High

    Inferred through another school · underlying source period unavailable; not a direct feeder

    35th percentile · Developing · high · 2025

Links do not guarantee placement. Charter, magnet, transfer and other admission routes can differ. Each school’s percentile compares it with California schools at its own level (continuation and alternative schools only with their own kind); the stages are not one ranking.

Where the path ends: Palm Springs High
Palm Springs High35th · Developing · 2025 · Scope Score 51estimated path

The road from this school ends at Palm Springs High. UC records 34 enrollees from Palm Springs High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 21 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. A child starting here today would reach Palm Springs High around 2035, and a school can change a lot in 9 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 66% of the students who finished high school at Palm Springs High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

34 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 21 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on Palm Springs High's page
Source: UC & College Board AP Course Ledger

How do I get in?

Ask Cielo Vista Charter how it admits students. Charter schools set their own enrollment steps and dates.

Before you apply

Confirm this school’s current process directly.

Eligibility and entry grades
Which grades are accepting applications, and who is eligible?
Application and lottery
What are the deadlines, enrollment priorities, and lottery or waitlist steps?
The daily logistics
What transportation and before- or after-school options are available?
School website: cvc.psusd.us ↗Office: (760) 416-8250Administrator: Juanita Perezchica

Location and visiting

Get directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
650 South Paseo Dorotea, Palm Springs 92264

Directory location · Explore nearby schools on the map. Confirm enrollment with the school.

Questions for your visit

  1. How much of each day do English learners spend learning English, and how do families see their progress? 37% of English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026 (40 of 109 students); California: 47%
  2. How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?
  3. When a student is suspended, what happens before and after, and who talks with the family?
  4. How does the school keep Hispanic or Latino and low-income students on track as they move up through the grades?
  5. What did Technology pay for, and what changes now that the 2026–27 plan gives it $95,013 less?

Office (760) 416-8250650 South Paseo Dorotea, directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Nearby elementary schoolsClosest first, by straight-line distance

The closest elementary schools, by straight-line distance from this campus. Distance isn’t an attendance boundary.

Nearby elementary schoolsPercentile among California elementary schools, 2026

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.

Explore nearby schools on the map

Source records

Every figure on this page, with its source, grades, year and count.

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #2,554 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score · #3 of 17 in Palm Springs Unified
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math24%5342%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math53%5823%
5th graders in 2026 against 3rd graders in 2024 (partly different children)+66 scale-score pts3220%
Chronically absent4 in 100695%
Suspension rate2.4% (21 of 865)445%
English learners: top level11%415%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. Growth is the change between the school's earlier and later grade-level groups, in scale-score points; it does not follow the same students.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–263855#2554California elementary schools · 5,726 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–190 in 1002.2% (20 of 906)−13
2021–22not on filenot on file0
2022–23not on filenot on file−5
2023–2412 in 1002.8% (24 of 855)−11
2024–256 in 1000.7% (6 of 829)−25
2025–264 in 1002.4% (21 of 865)−1

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English63125%56%
2026 · Math63120%44%
2025 · English58226%60%
2025 · Math58120%45%
2024 · English58523%57%
2024 · Math58617%39%
2023 · English57821%57%
2023 · Math57716%40%
2022 · English56620%55%
2022 · Math56513%32%
2019 · English63628%66%
2019 · Math63623%47%
2018 · English66631%65%
2018 · Math66624%52%
2017 · English62029%63%
2017 · Math61924%52%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 3 · English8069%
2025 · Grade 4 · English8754%
2025 · Grade 5 · English8548%
2025 · Grade 6 · English11456%
2025 · Grade 7 · English10869%
2025 · Grade 8 · English10863%
2025 · Grade 3 · Math8066%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math8763%
2025 · Grade 5 · Math8437%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math11439%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math10843%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math10829%
2024 · Grade 3 · English8665%
2024 · Grade 4 · English8843%
2024 · Grade 5 · English8664%
2024 · Grade 6 · English11546%
2024 · Grade 7 · English11167%
2024 · Grade 8 · English9960%
2024 · Grade 3 · Math8768%
2024 · Grade 4 · Math8833%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math8647%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math11527%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math11140%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math9924%
2023 · Grade 3 · English8756%
2023 · Grade 4 · English8751%
2023 · Grade 5 · English8761%
2023 · Grade 6 · English11651%
2023 · Grade 7 · English9472%
2023 · Grade 8 · English10755%
2023 · Grade 3 · Math8759%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math8751%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math8745%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math11630%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math9436%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math10624%
2022 · Grade 3 · English8052%
2022 · Grade 4 · English8547%
2022 · Grade 5 · English8665%
2022 · Grade 6 · English9452%
2022 · Grade 7 · English11163%
2022 · Grade 8 · English11048%
2022 · Grade 3 · Math8056%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math8534%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math8643%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math9420%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math11127%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math10918%
2019 · Grade 3 · English7878%
2019 · Grade 4 · English10762%
2019 · Grade 5 · English11563%
2019 · Grade 6 · English11664%
2019 · Grade 7 · English11569%
2019 · Grade 8 · English10565%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math7869%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math10750%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math11557%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math11644%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math11537%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math10531%
2018 · Grade 3 · English11273%
2018 · Grade 4 · English12262%
2018 · Grade 5 · English12762%
2018 · Grade 6 · English12258%
2018 · Grade 7 · English11268%
2018 · Grade 8 · English7168%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math11274%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math12259%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math12751%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math12243%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math11240%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math7144%
2017 · Grade 3 · English11662%
2017 · Grade 4 · English12758%
2017 · Grade 5 · English12555%
2017 · Grade 6 · English11969%
2017 · Grade 7 · English7464%
2017 · Grade 8 · English5981%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math11668%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math12750%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math12542%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math11955%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math7347%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math5942%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide1998%23%59%11%

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.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income42549%+18+12
Hispanic or Latino50453%+21+15
English learners (grades 3–6 only)7017%+6+5
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students0499Average−9498Moderate
Low-income0483Average−9482Moderate
Hispanic or Latino0402Average−10401Moderate
English-only students+4272not categorized−2271not categorized
English learners−15126Moderate−18126Moderate
Recently reclassified as fluent in English−168not categorized−1268not categorized
English learners only−2558not categorized−1958not categorized
Students with disabilities−1243Moderate−2143Minimal
White+740Accelerated+540Accelerated
Filipino+521Accelerated−1021Moderate
Long-term English learners (grades 6–8 only)−1419Moderate−2419Minimal
Two or more races+116Average−1416Moderate
Homeless+1911Accelerated−3511Minimal

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a valid growth score. SchoolScope uses that threshold for the shorter narrative view; the reported values stay visible here. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. Long-term English learner counts cover grades 6–8 only (CDE’s rule), so that row is not comparable to the All students row. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure, and grade 5 against the same school’s grade 3 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 5 in 2026 against grade 3 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 3
36%
exceeded standard · 65% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 86 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 5
26%
Advanced · 57% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 96 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 87 (school-grade cohort proxy).

These paired percentages describe English results for grade groups at this school in two years. The groups are not matched students. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different school-level scale-score proxy across English and math; California's matched-student model is a separate measure.

California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English0 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4–8

499 students

CDE growth category: Average

California growth model, English: 0 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math−9 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4–8

498 students

CDE growth category: Moderate

California growth model, math: −9 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Moderate, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 6 in 100 → 2025–26 · 4 in 100 · −2 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 0.7% (6 of 829) → 2025–26 · 2.4% (21 of 865) · +1.7 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female0 in 1005 in 100+5 in 100
Male1 in 1004 in 100+3 in 100
Black or African American6 in 1007 in 100+1 in 100
Filipino0 in 1003 in 100+3 in 100
Hispanic or Latino0 in 1005 in 100+5 in 100
Two or more races0 in 1000 in 1000 in 100
White0 in 1002 in 100+2 in 100
Students with disabilities1 in 1005 in 100+4 in 100
English learners0 in 1004 in 100+4 in 100
Homeless0 in 1005 in 100+5 in 100
Low-income0 in 1005 in 100+5 in 100
All students0 in 1004 in 100+4 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$16,422 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 21,705 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$1,089 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 824

Central federal expenditures attributed here$624 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 824

District current expense · FY 2024–25$24,457 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 61%Instruction support 11%Student services 10%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 11%Other 1%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$258,948,35060.78%61%
Instruction support$48,678,29911.43%11%
Student services$43,843,69510.29%10%
Administration$24,946,4805.86%6%
Buildings & maintenance$45,308,60210.63%11%
Other$4,329,1841.02%1%
Total$426,054,610100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $426,054,610 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$16,422 per pupil
2020$15,347 per pupil
2019$14,904 per pupil
2018$14,951 per pupil
2017$14,624 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 92264 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 92264 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$77,688
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)49%
ZIP-area population19,899
Median age61.2 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 92264 →

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