Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista pairs 56% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista scores 57 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 78th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “56% proficient” and call it done. Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista's low-income kids hit 51.2% 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.
As a charter, Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
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 rises 11.6pp across grades; the floor rises 29.3pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista's most underrated number
51.2% 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 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 83
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 20.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
Frequently asked questions
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For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 48 | 23% | 27% | 27% | 23% | 50% | +7 |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 31% | 20% | 22% | 27% | 51% | +6 |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 34% | 45% | 10% | 10% | 79% | +31 |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 4% | 33% | 40% | 22% | 38% | −9 |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 8% | 47% | 27% | 18% | 55% | +7 |
| Grade 8 | 53 | 21% | 34% | 25% | 21% | 55% | +9 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 48 | 19% | 44% | 19% | 19% | 63% | +17 |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 14% | 25% | 24% | 37% | 39% | −2 |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 34% | 22% | 29% | 14% | 57% | +22 |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 22% | 24% | 40% | 13% | 47% | +12 |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 6% | 24% | 33% | 37% | 31% | −3 |
| Grade 8 | 53 | 26% | 13% | 21% | 40% | 40% | +7 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 112 | 15% | 26% | 45% | 14% |
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 | 208 | 51.2% | +10 | +13 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 159 | 49.1% | +8 | +10 |
| White | 28 | 89.3% | +20 | +27 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista ← | — | 57 | 26.0% | 56.5% | +11.9 | 2.7% |
| Overland Avenue Elementary | 1.3 mi | 88 | 70.4% | 90.4% | +3.3 | 0.5% |
| Clover Avenue Elementary | 1 mi | 81 | 65.6% | 86.3% | −3.9 | 0.5% |
| Edison Elementary | 1.4 mi | 80 | 50.4% | 81.3% | −10.8 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.