Community Magnet Charter Elementary: High scores, healthy climate, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.
Community Magnet Charter posts 59.6% exceeding the standard — versus 21.3% 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.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 80 | 60% | 84% | -13.5 | 9.9% | 0.1% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Community Magnet Charter Elementary scores 80 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 98th percentile of 5,744 California elementary 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.
Most rating sites would stop at “84% proficient” and call it done. Community Magnet Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Community Magnet Charter's low-income kids hit 74.5% 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, Community Magnet Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 98th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 84% of students meet the standard today, above the 80% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 78% | 71% | 83% | 85% | 86% |
| Grade 4 | 78% | 86% | 71% | 83% | 88% |
| Grade 5 | 84% | 78% | 81% | 78% | 78% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 84% | 83% | 80% | 92% | 93% |
| Grade 4 | 80% | 82% | 71% | 83% | 88% |
| Grade 5 | 75% | 75% | 80% | 67% | 73% |
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 13.2pp across grades; the floor slips 7.5pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Community Magnet Charter's most underrated number
74.5% 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 the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- 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 Community Magnet Charter Elementary in Los Angeles, 74.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Community Magnet Charter Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 33.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (68.6% Math proficient); White students (88.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 16.7 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 51 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 falls by 37.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (13.8% vs 8.7%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
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.
$662 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 71% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 79
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 59
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 | 69 | 68% | 17% | 10% | 4% | 86% | +42 |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 61% | 27% | 9% | 3% | 88% | +44 |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 55% | 23% | 17% | 5% | 78% | +30 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 69 | 64% | 29% | 3% | 4% | 93% | +47 |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 58% | 30% | 8% | 4% | 88% | +47 |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 51% | 22% | 20% | 7% | 73% | +38 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 82 | 35% | 35% | 26% | 4% |
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 | 51 | 74.5% | +34 | +36 |
| White | 85 | 88.2% | +19 | +26 |
| Asian | 54 | 87.0% | +7 | +13 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Magnet Charter Elementary ← | — | 80 | 59.6% | 84.3% | −13.5 | 0.1% |
| Roscomare Road Elementary | 2.6 mi | 85 | 62.2% | 84.1% | −1.9 | 0.1% |
| Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter | 1.7 mi | 77 | 54.8% | 80.7% | −1.3 | 0.1% |
| Warner Avenue Elementary | 1.8 mi | 76 | 58.6% | 82.7% | −6.9 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 77 | 95 | #253 | 52.4% | 79.8% | 11.4% | 0.2% | -1.5pp |
| 2022 | 71 | 95 | #281 | 52.2% | 79.2% | 11.0% | 0.0% | -0.8pp |
| 2023 | 80 | 97 | #158 | 55.0% | 77.4% | 11.3% | 0.0% | -0.5pp |
| 2024 | 79 | 97 | #164 | 57.9% | 81.2% | 7.5% | 0.1% | -15.6pp |
| 2025 | 80 | 98 | #141 | 59.6% | 84.3% | 9.9% | 0.1% | -13.5pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 11.6% | 8.2% | -3.4pp |
| Male | 11.2% | 10.5% | -0.7pp |
| Asian | 6.7% | 6.4% | -0.3pp |
| Black/African American | 14.5% | 9.1% | -5.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 10.4% | 9.7% | -0.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 8.8% | 11.3% | +2.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 17.3% | 3.8% | -13.5pp |
| English Learners | 11.1% | 0.0% | -11.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 15.0% | 10.8% | -4.2pp |
| All Students | 11.4% | 9.4% | -2.0pp |
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