Clara Barton Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Clara Barton posts 69% meeting the standard, and 42.8% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 68 | 43% | 69% | -3.8 | 7.4% | 1.2% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Clara Barton Elementary scores 68 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 90th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “69% proficient” and call it done. Clara Barton deserves a closer read. The school sits in Eastvale, where three in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Clara Barton's low-income kids hit 65.6% 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
Has held the 90th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 69% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 66% | 65% | 62% | 62% | 69% |
| Grade 4 | 74% | 72% | 76% | 65% | 69% |
| Grade 5 | 72% | 68% | 72% | 74% | 74% |
| Grade 6 | 75% | 70% | 63% | 63% | 77% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 70% | 70% | 66% | 66% | 74% |
| Grade 4 | 71% | 61% | 67% | 65% | 65% |
| Grade 5 | 65% | 53% | 54% | 56% | 62% |
| Grade 6 | 68% | 66% | 61% | 54% | 66% |
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 8.9pp across grades; the floor rises 4.6pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Clara Barton's most underrated number
65.6% 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 6 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 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.
- 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 Clara Barton Elementary in Eastvale, 65.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 51.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Clara Barton Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 14.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (59.4% Math proficient); Asian students (82.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 55.8 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 450 students tested.
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 rises by 0.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +9.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
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.
$229 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 1,136 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), 55% 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 69
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 63
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 3 | 160 | 51% | 18% | 23% | 8% | 69% | +26 |
| Grade 4 | 193 | 48% | 22% | 14% | 17% | 69% | +25 |
| Grade 5 | 177 | 42% | 32% | 13% | 13% | 74% | +26 |
| Grade 6 | 190 | 45% | 32% | 15% | 8% | 77% | +30 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 161 | 34% | 40% | 16% | 11% | 74% | +28 |
| Grade 4 | 193 | 35% | 30% | 23% | 12% | 65% | +24 |
| Grade 5 | 180 | 46% | 16% | 19% | 19% | 62% | +26 |
| Grade 6 | 195 | 46% | 19% | 20% | 14% | 66% | +31 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 180 | 28% | 27% | 33% | 12% |
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 | 450 | 65.6% | +14 | +27 |
| Asian | 303 | 82.5% | +5 | +8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 186 | 58.1% | +9 | +19 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clara Barton Elementary ← | — | 68 | 42.8% | 69.0% | −3.8 | 1.2% |
| Park View Elementary | 2.3 mi | 77 | 44.3% | 71.0% | +15.5 | 0.8% |
| Philistine Rondo School of Discovery | 1.4 mi | 69 | 38.7% | 66.7% | +0.9 | 0.9% |
| Cal Aero Preserve Academy | 2.2 mi | 62 | 35.1% | 62.4% | −10.5 | 1.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 69 | 90 | #563 | 41.9% | 69.7% | 4.5% | 0.9% | +0.7pp |
| 2022 | 57 | 84 | #921 | 41.9% | 64.7% | 18.3% | 1.0% | -6.8pp |
| 2023 | 66 | 90 | #597 | 43.2% | 66.3% | 17.6% | 0.8% | -0.7pp |
| 2024 | 64 | 86 | #785 | 41.6% | 64.7% | 9.2% | 0.7% | +0.7pp |
| 2025 | 68 | 90 | #551 | 42.8% | 69.0% | 7.4% | 1.2% | -3.8pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 4.7% | 7.6% | +2.9pp |
| Male | 4.2% | 6.6% | +2.4pp |
| Asian | 2.6% | 3.0% | +0.4pp |
| Black/African American | 9.8% | 8.6% | -1.2pp |
| White | 4.9% | 1.4% | -3.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 4.8% | 12.3% | +7.5pp |
| Two or More Races | 0.0% | 4.1% | +4.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 8.7% | 16.5% | +7.8pp |
| English Learners | 4.8% | 3.9% | -0.9pp |
| Foster Youth | 0.0% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 7.2% | 8.9% | +1.7pp |
| All Students | 4.4% | 7.1% | +2.7pp |
| Filipino | — | 19.0% | — |
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