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College Preparatory Middle · Spring ValleyCharter

College Preparatory Middle: High scores, healthy climate, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.

College Preparatory posts 58.1% exceeding the standard — versus 17.2% statewide — with climate numbers better than most. That doesn't make it perfect. It makes it worth a visit to find what numbers can't measure.

10269 Madrid Way, 91977 (opens in new tab)·SBE - College Preparatory Middle·Spring Valley·Grades 5-8·397 students·43% low-income·Charter·2024–25 CAASPP·(619) 303-2782·Website
Charter school — publicly funded, independently operated. Enrollment terms vary by charter — ask this school how it enrolls. Learn more
Scope Score
91
Strong High Ceiling
ranked #9 statewide
392 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 94 tracked

College Preparatory Middle scores 91 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 99th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →

High Ceiling — Ask what happens for a kid who shows up behind — a high ceiling for the top can sit right next to thin support at the bottom, and the score alone won't show you which.

CDE CAASPP 2025

Most rating sites would stop at “84% proficient” and call it done. College Preparatory 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.

College Preparatory's low-income kids hit 80.8% 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, College Preparatory enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

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3 nearby middle schools — see all options →

  1. This school
    Charter
    91Strong
  2. Hillsdale Middle
    2.3 mi · Public
    41Solid
  3. EJE Middle Academy
    2.7 mi · Charter
    35Developing
  4. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math A
    3 mi · Public
    28Developing
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
This schoolCA avg
Scope9139
% Exceeded58%17%
% Met+84%40%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Strong · p94Average · p50
Absence3.0%18.1%
Suspension0.8%3.6%

The seven-year arc

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide

Has held the 99th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.

CA Dashboard
ELABlue(Increased)MathBlue(Increased)

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 84% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 568%83%80%87%81%
Grade 680%84%76%76%88%
Grade 790%82%92%93%84%
Grade 892%83%84%86%91%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 575%73%69%80%76%
Grade 673%78%74%73%82%
Grade 785%67%71%81%79%
Grade 867%43%62%72%80%

Where its students land

ELA
Exceeded 54%Met 32%Nearly Met 11%Not Met 3%
Math
Exceeded 57%Met 22%Nearly Met 15%Not Met 6%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded

The school, grade by grade

The school, grade by grade

ELA · CAASPP 2024–25

Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.

58%
30%
12%
Grade 6 · 88% proficient
49%
35%
16%
Grade 7 · 84% proficient
60%
32%
8%
Grade 8 · 92% proficient

The honest read: the share exceeding rises 2.0pp across grades; the floor rises 3.6pp. The state average rises 0.1pp 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.

80.8%
Low-income · ELA · met standard

College Preparatory's most underrated number

80.8% 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.

College Preparatory low-income: 80.8%State low-income: 38.2%

The 5 things our score weighs

Exceeded standard
58.1%
State 17.2%
41.0pp above state avg
Met or exceeded
84.0%
State 40.0%
44.0pp above state avg
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
Strong
State average
The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 69 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.
Chronic absenteeism
3.0%
State 18.1%
15.1pp below state avg
Suspension rate
0.8%
State 3.6%
2.8pp below state avg
The returning cohort, two years on
ELA · 2023 · Grade 6
37%
exceeded standard · 76% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 8
60%
exceeded standard · 91% met or exceeded

Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.

California's own answer to the same question

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do. The two measures land in the same neighbourhood here — ours puts this school around the 94th percentile of California middle schools, the state's around the 99th in reading and math together. Two different methods agreeing is the most you can ask of one year of test data.

Both measures, ranked against every California school
Our growth measurereturning cohort, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 94th percentile among California middle schools.94th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +30 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 99th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.99th pctile · +30 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +36 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 99th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.99th pctile · +36 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

— 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 middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — 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.

Worth a school visit

Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.

  • Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
  • 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 College Preparatory Middle in Spring Valley, 80.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 80.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. College Preparatory Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (74.0% Math proficient); White students (87.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 6.1 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 177 students tested.

All students at this school: 83% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 83%, district —, state 40%83%
WhiteWhite: this school 83%, district 83%, state 56%83% · +1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 83%, district 83%, state 42%83% · +1 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 82%, district 82%, state 44%82% · −1 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 77%, district 77%, state 32%77% · −5 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 76%, district 76%, state 32%76% · −6 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 50%, district 50%, state 15%50% · −33 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 50%, district 50%, state 11%50% · −33 vs school

5 of 13 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
Subgroup growth by grade

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 4.5pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.

The state's growth model, by student group

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 middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only262 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +31 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 262 students.+31 pts · +31 vs typical
White224 studentsWhite, reading: +29 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 224 students.+29 pts · +29 vs typical
Low-income students172 studentsLow-income students, reading: +25 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 172 students.+25 pts · +28 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students96 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +29 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 96 students.+29 pts · +31 vs typical
English Learner75 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +23 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 75 students.+23 pts · +28 vs typical
Math
English Only262 studentsEnglish Only, math: +34 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 262 students.+34 pts · +37 vs typical
White224 studentsWhite, math: +35 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 224 students.+35 pts · +34 vs typical
Low-income students172 studentsLow-income students, math: +38 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 172 students.+38 pts · +43 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students96 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +35 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 96 students.+35 pts · +41 vs typical
English Learner75 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +39 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 75 students.+39 pts · +42 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 5 more groups are 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.

Showing up, and staying in class

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 3.0%, district 3.0%, state 18.1%3.0% · −15.1pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.8%, district —, state 3.6%0.8% · −2.8pp vs state
Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–62.0%
Grades 7–82.5%

Where the path goes

College Preparatory Middle serves grades 5-8. We don’t have attendance-boundary data showing which high school students here continue to, and we’d rather leave this blank than guess from whichever school happens to be nearest. The district office can tell you which high school your address is zoned for.

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Student : teacherStudent to teacher ratio: this school 20:1, district 20:120:1
PrincipalChristina Callaway
Teaching staff20 teachers
Avg. experience6.6 years
Fully credentialed79%
First-year teachers5%

What gets spent here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $11,645, CA average $14,491$11,645 · spent at this school
Federal share$1,405 per student

$1,405 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

64% of district spending reaches instruction — CA average is 60%.

district detail, 2018–2020 — the newest published
2020$6,828 per pupil
2019$9,164 per pupil
2018$8,189 per pupil

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score
White57.2%
District 57.2% · CA 19.9%
Hispanic26.7%
District 26.7% · CA 56.1%
Other7.8%
District 7.8% · CA 9.0%
Black4.3%
District 4.3% · CA 4.8%
Asian4.0%
District 4.0% · CA 10.2%
Low IncomeFree/reduced lunch eligible 42.8% (21pp below CA avg)
Neighborhood — American Community Survey
Median income$100K · CA $85K
Median home value$666K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+28% · CA 35%
ZIP population61,064
Median age36 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Worth Knowing

At 397 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 78% 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.

Frequently asked questions

Is College Preparatory Middle a good middle school?

College Preparatory Middle has a Scope Score of 91 out of 100, placing it in the 99th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #9 statewide. 58.1% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 41.0 percentage points above the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.

What are College Preparatory Middle's CAASPP test scores?

On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 84.0% of students at College Preparatory Middle met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 58.1% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 25.9% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 58.1% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 586 student-subject combinations were assessed.

How does College Preparatory Middle rank in California?

College Preparatory Middle ranks #9 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 99th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.

Is College Preparatory Middle getting better or worse?

SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At College Preparatory Middle that cohort is 2023 G6 → 2025 G8, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks strong among California middle schools — roughly the 94th percentile, ahead of the typical school at this level. Read the ranking, not the raw point gain: scale scores rise with age, so nearly every school posts a positive number and only the relative position tells you anything. Growth is weighted at 20% in the middle Scope Score because it is the least demographically confounded signal available — it tracks change over time rather than the level students arrived at. See full methodology.

What is the attendance and school culture like at College Preparatory Middle?

3.0% of students at College Preparatory Middle are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 0.8%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.

How does College Preparatory Middle compare to other schools in Spring Valley?

College Preparatory Middle scores 91/100 (99th percentile) among California middle schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 397 students. Use the schools in Spring Valley page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.

How does College Preparatory Middle serve low-income and underrepresented students?

At College Preparatory Middle in Spring Valley, 80.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 80.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. College Preparatory Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (74.0% Math proficient); White students (87.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 6.1 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 177 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Exceeded standard · 42%
58.1%
↑ vs CA 17.2% · index 96 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded · 23%
84.0%
↑ vs CA 40.0% · index 86 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) · 20%
Strong
↑ vs CA average · 94th pctile
Chronic absenteeism · 5%
3.0%
↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 72 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
▲ 0.1pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate · 5%
0.8%
↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 61 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
▼ 1.0pp lower vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 59951%30%13%6%81%+33
Grade 69958%30%11%1%88%+42
Grade 710049%35%13%3%84%+36
Grade 89460%32%9%0%91%+45
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 59947%28%15%9%76%+41
Grade 69964%18%15%3%82%+47
Grade 710052%27%14%7%79%+45
Grade 89467%13%17%3%80%+48

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide19150%28%22%0%

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 · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged17780.8%+0+43
White23187.4%+0+26
Hispanic/Latino9779.4%+0+41
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
College Preparatory Middle ←—9158.1%84.0%+0.8pp+69 pts0.8%
Hillsdale Middle2.3 mi4123.0%49.4%−2.0pp—8.2%
EJE Middle Academy2.7 mi359.8%28.3%+4.2pp—0.6%
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math A3 mi2812.1%32.4%+9.9pp—10.2%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20197996#7246.7%81.0%1.6%0.7%+2.5pp
20227495#9939.5%72.6%4.5%0.7%-17.8pp
20238097#6945.1%76.5%2.1%1.6%-2.6pp
20247997#5750.0%80.1%2.9%1.8%+4.9pp
20259199#958.1%84.0%3.0%0.8%+0.8pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
Group20192025Δ
Female0.0%3.5%+3.5pp
Male1.5%1.0%-0.5pp
Hispanic/Latino3.8%6.7%+2.9pp
Two or More Races0.0%0.0%+0.0pp
White0.0%0.4%+0.4pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged0.9%4.4%+3.5pp
All Students0.8%2.2%+1.4pp
Asian—6.3%—
Black/African American—0.0%—
Students with Disabilities—2.5%—
English Learners—3.4%—
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+30377Exceptional+36377Exceptional
English Only+31262not categorised+34262not categorised
White+29224Exceptional+35224Exceptional
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+25172Exceptional+38172Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino+2996Exceptional+3596Exceptional
English Learner+2375Exceptional+3975Exceptional
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+2862not categorised+3962not categorised
Students with Disabilities+2136Exceptional+3136Exceptional
Two or More Races+3219Exceptional+4619Exceptional
Black or African American+1715Accelerated+2515Exceptional
Asian+814Accelerated+5714Exceptional
English Learners Only−1113not categorised+3513not categorised
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)−512Average+5312Exceptional

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. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. 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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