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Corte Madera — Rating & test scores

4575 Alpine Road, Portola Valley · 252 students · Grades 4–8

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Scope Score 95

StrongScope Score · 98th percentile. Higher than 98 in 100 of the 2,529 California public middle schools we score.

75 is the typical California school. 100 is the best result in the state. How the score is built

Well above California in English (reading and writing) and math, grades 6–8, spring 2026: 87% and 87% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 49% and 37%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 6–8: 150
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 6, 7 and 8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,254,039 in English and 1,254,800 in math tested).

This rating covers grades 6–8. Corte Madera teaches 4–8.

Overview

Is Corte Madera a good middle school?

Strong. Corte Madera is higher than most California middle schools on test results, progress in both subjects and attendance.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced9887%
Math, Proficient or Advanced9987%
English, Advanced9853%
Math, Advanced9972%

Progress in a year, 2025

English71+7 pts
Math92+20 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance933 in 100
Corte Madera’s place among California middle schools, out of 100Bar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

On spring 2025 tests, students in grades 4–8 scored higher than California students who had the same scores the year before, in English (+7 pts) and math (+20 pts). The state calls them Accelerated in English and Exceptional in math.

Each bar is Corte Madera’s place among 2,529 California public middle schools we score. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, updated October 15, 2026.

How to read these bars, and their sources

A place counts the schools out of 100 with a lower figure. The dashed line is the middle. Test results are from spring 2026, grades 6–8. Progress is the state’s measure of how the same students’ scores changed against the score it expected, 2025. Attendance counts students who missed 10% or more of school days; fewer is better, so a higher place means fewer such students.

Source for the sentence
CDE growth model, 2025. Students with scores in both years in grades 4–8: 244 in English, 243 in math. 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.

In its own words

What does Corte Madera say about itself?

We haven’t read Corte Madera’s website yet. Until we do, the school’s own site is the best place to hear it in its own words.

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Progress

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4–8 scored 7 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 20 points higher, which the state calls Exceptional.

English

+7

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

White151+9 points
Two or More Races43+12 points
Hispanic or Latino31−3 points
Students with disabilities29+1 points
Low-income18−8 points

Math

+20

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Exceptional, the highest of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

White150+23 points
Two or More Races43+25 points
Hispanic or Latino31+9 points
Students with disabilities29+12 points
Low-income180 points

Grades 4–8, 2025, 244 students in English, 243 in math with scores in both years. Faded rows have fewer than 40 students. It describes results, not causes. Source: California Department of Education, growth model.

How the state’s growth measure works

The state calls this comparison an expected score. It sets one for each student from that student’s own score the year before.

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 7 points above that expected score, and in math 20 points above 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 8 scores here with the school’s grade 6 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.

SchoolScope middle standardized cohort gain: approximately 56th percentile on a calibrated reference scale, not an empirical school rank. This score compares school-level grade groups across English and math, not matched students in California's separate growth model.

Nearby

How does it compare with schools nearby?

0 of the 2 middle schools nearby have a higher Scope Score than Corte Madera. Each school is compared with every California middle school.

Scope Score

3 middle schools within 5.0 miles, highest score first. Under each name is how the school takes students.

  1. Corte MaderaScope Score 9598th
  2. La EntradaLas Lomitas Elementary · by addressScope Score 9196th
  3. HillviewMenlo Park City Elementary · by addressScope Score 9196th
Portola Valley ElementaryA neighborhood school in another district

A neighborhood school in another district takes students who live in its area. Ask that district about a transfer.

Scope Score from California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 6–8. Distance is a straight line from this campus and is not an attendance boundary. See these schools on the map

Scores and family income

Further right, more students are from low-income families. Higher up, more students scored Proficient or Advanced in English.

75%0%25%50%75%100%

English results: California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 6–8. Low-income is the share of students who qualified for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes.

Schools like it

How does Corte Madera compare with schools like it?

Corte Madera’s Scope Score is 95. 88 California middle schools, counting Corte Madera, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 90. Corte Madera’s result is higher than 71 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 88

  1. Students from low-income families: 4%

    Scope Score 100Strong · 99th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 10%

    Scope Score 100Strong · 99th percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 3%

    Scope Score 98Strong · 99th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 3%

    Scope Score 98Strong · 99th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 9%

    Scope Score 98Strong · 99th percentile

88 California public middle schools where 1% to 13% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, spring 2026.

How the group is chosen

The group is every California public middle school we score where 1% to 13% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. That is within 6 points of Corte Madera’s share. The count includes Corte Madera. Typical means the median: half are higher and half are lower. Schools differ in more than family income, and no score is changed for it. Our calculation from California Department of Education records: state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, and school meal eligibility, 2024–25.

Over time

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English went from 89% to 87% and math from 84% to 87%.

Share at the state’s top two test levels, 2017 to 2026

Grades 6–8. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202685%87%Corte MaderaCorte Madera49%CaliforniaCalifornia

Math

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202677%87%Corte MaderaCorte Madera37%CaliforniaCalifornia

The lines break where a year has no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Each year’s results

The top two levels were called Met or Exceeded before 2026 and are called Proficient or Advanced now.

English, grades 6–8: share at the top two levels
SpringCorte MaderaCaliforniaTested here
201785%48%211
201881%49%197
201987%50%172
202282%47%152
202388%46%153
202484%46%152
202589%49%154
202687%49%150
Math, grades 6–8: share at the top two levels
SpringCorte MaderaCaliforniaTested here
201777%37%211
201883%37%197
201980%38%173
202282%31%153
202388%32%154
202482%33%152
202584%36%154
202687%37%150

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

Well above California in both subjects.

English

87%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

93453
California49%

Math

87%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

71572
California37%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grades 6–8, spring 2026, 87% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 87% in math, against 49% and 37% across California.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grades 6–8 combined. From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

How do the elementary grades do?

Well above California in both subjects. In grades 4 and 5, spring 2026, 82% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 78% in math, against 47% and 40% across California.

English

82%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

8101765
California47%

Math

78%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

8141563
California40%

School patterns · grades 6–8 · spring 2026

High ceiling
A high share of students here scored Advanced, the state’s top level. The English and math cards above give each figure.
Broad base
Most students here scored Proficient or Advanced, the state’s top two levels. The English and math cards above give each figure.

What patterns mean

Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 4 and 5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced84%80%
Advanced63%67%
Proficient21%13%
Developing level10%10%
Minimal6%10%
Tested6351
California46%49%
Difference+38+31
English, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced90%90%82%
Advanced69%59%31%
Proficient21%31%51%
Developing level4%10%12%
Minimal6%0%6%
Tested485151
California48%51%49%
Difference+42+39+33

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 4 and 5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced84%71%
Advanced64%61%
Proficient20%10%
Developing level11%17%
Minimal5%12%
Tested6451
California42%37%
Difference+42+34
Math, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced90%92%78%
Advanced83%71%63%
Proficient7%21%15%
Developing level6%2%12%
Minimal4%6%10%
Tested485151
California37%38%36%
Difference+53+54+42

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.

All four test levels, with the number of students tested
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026. The state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal.
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 6–8 · This school53%34%9%4%150
English, grades 6–8 · California19%30%23%28%1,254,039
Math, grades 6–8 · This school72%15%6%7%150
Math, grades 6–8 · California21%16%23%40%1,254,800
English, grades 4 and 5 · This school65%17%10%8%114
English, grades 4 and 5 · California24%23%20%33%817,970
Math, grades 4 and 5 · This school63%15%14%8%115
Math, grades 4 and 5 · California21%19%26%34%819,757

Spring 2026, grades 6–8 combined: 150 tested in English, 150 tested in math. California combines the state’s results for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Who goes here

Who goes here?

White students are the largest group here, at 55% of students. 9 of 267 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

3in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (9 of 267 students).

At the average California middle school: 18 in 100.

No district average: Corte Madera is the only regular middle school we rank in the Portola Valley Elementary district with an attendance record.

Students, 2024–25

252

students in grades 4–8.

White 55%Two or more races 19%Hispanic or Latino 15%Asian 7%

Family income

7%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 17 of 252. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

23

teachers, with 15 years of experience on average.

9% were in their first year.

96% of teaching positions had the right credential, 2021–22.

Suspensions, 2025–26

1.5%

of students were suspended at least once (4 of 267). Average California middle school 3.7%.

Sources: California Department of Education. Each tile names its year.

Missing school, by grade
Grades 4–6
2 in 100 students in grades 4–6 were chronically absent (3 of 164).
Grades 7–8
6 in 100 students in grades 7–8 were chronically absent (6 of 103).
Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
White55%
Two or more races19%
Hispanic or Latino15%
Asian7%
Black or African American—
Filipino—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—
Where these figures come from

Attendance and suspensions: California Department of Education, 2025–26. Student mix: the students the state’s attendance file counts, 2025–26; a dash means our records hold no count. Student count: California Department of Education enrollment, 2024–25. Teachers: California Department of Education staffing files, 2024–25.

Teaching credentials: California’s School Accountability Report Card, 2024–25, measured in 2021–22: 22 of 23 full-time teaching positions. It counts positions, not individual teachers.

Student groups

How do kids like mine do here?

Two student groups at Corte Madera have test results. Each bar compares one group with the same group across California.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • WhiteEnglish · 144 tested92%California 61%
  • WhiteMath · 145 tested92%California 51%
  • Two or more racesEnglish · 40 tested90%California 61%
  • Two or more racesMath · 40 tested80%California 52%

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 4–8, spring 2026. Each group is compared with the same group in the same grades. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Every group’s results, with the district

Low-income is the state’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” group.

Proficient or Advancedgrades 4–8 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Portola Valley Elementaryvs California
White · 144 tested in English, 145 in math
English92%092%+3161%
Math92%092%+4151%
Two or more races · 40 tested · grades 4, 5 and 8 only
English90%090%+2961%
Math80%080%+2852%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Portola Valley Elementary, and across California. No group that is behind across California does 10 or more points better here.

Hispanic or Latino students, 41 tested: no rate for grades 4 and 6–8 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. No published rate here for low-income, Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, English learners, students with disabilities 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.

Family and staff answers

What would families and staff tell you?

Families can answer a short set of questions about Corte Madera. These are not star ratings or reviews.

  1. Family answers show once 20 families have answered.Until then this page shows how many have answered.
  2. The questions are about the school, never a person.No question asks about a named teacher or staff member.
  3. Answers are never part of the Scope Score.They sit beside the state’s records and do not change a school’s score.

Families

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  • Does the school tell you how your child is doing, in a way you understand, before report cards arrive?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely
  • When you contact the school with a question, do you hear back within two school days?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely · Haven’t contacted them
  • Can you get school information in the language you read best?Yes · Mostly · No
  • And 4 more questions.

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Money

Where does the money go?

$38,162 for each student in 2024–25. California’s middle schools spent $19,269 for each student. Portola Valley Elementary’s plan for 2026–27 covers $20 million.

$38,162

for each student at this school, 2024–25
Spent at the school
$25,878
The school’s share of district office costs
$12,284
Of the total, from federal funds
$791
  • Corte Madera$38,162
  • California middle schools$19,269

The district and California figures combine their middle schools, weighted by enrollment (our calculation, 1,241 California schools). Spending does not show how well money is used. Source: California Department of Education, per-school spending report, 2024–25. Funding records ↓

Portola Valley Elementary’s yearly plan

$20million

in the district’s plan for 2026–27

$164,313

planned for services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth
  • Academic Achievement / Instruction$17 million
  • Wellness, Communication and Safety$3 million

This is the district’s plan. It is not this school’s own budget. Each part of the bar is one goal in the plan, with the money for its actions added up (our calculation). The plan covers $20 million of $23 million in total budgeted spending. Source: Portola Valley Elementary Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), 2026–27.

The neighborhood

What is the area around Corte Madera like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 94028. They are not figures for the families at Corte Madera.

Typical household income in a year

$250,001

Typical means half are higher and half are lower. The ZIP code is the school’s address, not its attendance area. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024, ZIP code area 94028.

Typical home value
$2,000,001
People who live in this ZIP code
6,531
Typical age
57.2 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
83%

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 6 questions to Corte Madera. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. How do you stretch students who are already ahead?72% scored Advanced in math, grades 6–8, spring 2026 (150 students tested); California: 21%
  2. Which math courses can students take, and how are placements decided?
  3. How do students get academic help and connect with a trusted adult?
  4. Which electives and high-school transition supports are available?

At the office

  1. What time does the day start and end, and is any day shorter?
  2. Is there care before or after school, and what does it cost?

Getting in

What comes after Corte Madera, and how do I get in?

Corte Madera runs through 8th grade, so there’s no middle-school move. Ask Portola Valley Elementary which school serves your address.

  1. Elementary
    Ormondale Elementary
    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)
  2. Middle · this school
    Corte Madera
    Grades 4–8Scope Score 95Strong · 98th percentile
  3. High
    Link not recorded
    Ask the district about this stage.

These links come from past records and from distance. Confirm your child’s school with the district. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Elementary links

  • Ormondale Elementary

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

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. Older zone links come from the federal School Attendance Boundary Survey (NCES SABS).

Where it is

Where is Corte Madera?

Address
4575 Alpine Road, Portola Valley 94028Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Kristen ShimaAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated November 9, 2023.

A school’s place on the map is its address in the state directory. It does not show which homes the school serves. See nearby schools on the map

Short answers to 6 common questions

How do I get in?

Corte Madera runs through 8th grade, so there’s no middle-school move. Ask Portola Valley Elementary which school serves your address. See the details ↓

Is Corte Madera a good middle school?

Corte Madera has a Scope Score of 95. It scored higher than 98 in 100 of California’s 2,529 scored public middle schools (Strong, 98th percentile, spring 2026). See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 3 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 18 in 100 at the average California middle school. 1.5% of students (4 of 267) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 3.7% at the average California middle school. See the details ↓

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4–8 scored 7 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 20 points higher, which the state calls Exceptional.

  • Included in this measure: 244 students in English, 243 in math

See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 92% of White students in grades 4–8 at Corte Madera in Portola Valley scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 61% for the same group across California. See the details ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Questions to ask, ready to copy. See the details ↓

The full record

Source records

This page is built from 12 sets of records from public data sources. Every figure keeps its source, grades, year and count.

Data updated

October 15, 2026

Record sets on this page
12
Sources
California Department of EducationU.S. Census Bureau
State test years
2017–2026

Results

Students

Money and staff

Place, downloads and method

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #32 of 2,529 California middle schools we score
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math63%9942%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math87%8823%
8th graders in 2026 against 6th graders in 2024 (partly different children)+49 scale-score pts5220%
Chronically absent3 in 100685%
Suspension rate1.5% (4 of 267)585%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California middle 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. The weights above add to 95%: English learners reaching the top level of the state’s English test has no value for this school, so its 5% weight is shared out among the measures above.

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
2025–269598#32California middle schools · 2,529 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)
2018–195 in 1001.9% (6 of 316)+2
2021–22not on filenot on file+1
2022–23not on filenot on file+2
2023–244 in 1001.1% (3 of 262)+8
2024–255 in 1000.4% (1 of 257)+5
2025–263 in 1001.5% (4 of 267)−9

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

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 6 and grade 8 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 · English26458%85%
2026 · Math26568%83%
2025 · English25258%87%
2025 · Math25266%83%
2024 · English25859%86%
2024 · Math25867%85%
2023 · English26957%87%
2023 · Math27064%86%
2022 · English25652%83%
2022 · Math25763%82%
2019 · English30459%88%
2019 · Math30563%82%
2018 · English33158%82%
2018 · Math33162%83%
2017 · English35257%83%
2017 · Math35158%79%

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 4 · English4978%
2025 · Grade 5 · English4988%
2025 · Grade 6 · English5188%
2025 · Grade 7 · English4986%
2025 · Grade 8 · English5493%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math4978%
2025 · Grade 5 · Math4988%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math5182%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math4980%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math5489%
2024 · Grade 4 · English4888%
2024 · Grade 5 · English5891%
2024 · Grade 6 · English4774%
2024 · Grade 7 · English5494%
2024 · Grade 8 · English5182%
2024 · Grade 4 · Math4892%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math5888%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math4772%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math5491%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math5180%
2023 · Grade 4 · English5886%
2023 · Grade 5 · English5884%
2023 · Grade 6 · English5285%
2023 · Grade 7 · English5391%
2023 · Grade 8 · English4888%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math5888%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math5878%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math5387%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math5389%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math4888%
2022 · Grade 4 · English5381%
2022 · Grade 5 · English5186%
2022 · Grade 6 · English5578%
2022 · Grade 7 · English5186%
2022 · Grade 8 · English4683%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math5379%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math5184%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math5680%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math5186%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math4678%
2019 · Grade 4 · English6489%
2019 · Grade 5 · English6888%
2019 · Grade 6 · English5585%
2019 · Grade 7 · English6888%
2019 · Grade 8 · English4986%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math6484%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math6884%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math5575%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math6987%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math4978%
2018 · Grade 4 · English7183%
2018 · Grade 5 · English6387%
2018 · Grade 6 · English7581%
2018 · Grade 7 · English5383%
2018 · Grade 8 · English6978%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math7185%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math6384%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math7585%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math5487%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math6876%
2017 · Grade 4 · English6878%
2017 · Grade 5 · English7384%
2017 · Grade 6 · English5788%
2017 · Grade 7 · English7182%
2017 · Grade 8 · English8386%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math6884%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math7282%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math5775%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math7176%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math8380%

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
Schoolwide10246%24%28%2%

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
White14492%0+31
Two or more races (grades 4, 5 and 8 only)4090%0+29
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 students+7244Accelerated+20243Exceptional
English-only students+8214not categorized+20213not categorized
White+9151Accelerated+23150Exceptional
Two or more races+1243Accelerated+2543Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino−331Average+931Accelerated
Students with disabilities+129Average+1229Accelerated
Low-income−818Moderate018Average
Asian+1316Accelerated+2616Exceptional
English learners+214Average+2914Exceptional
Recently reclassified as fluent in English+214not categorized+3214not categorized

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. 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 8 against the same school’s grade 6 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 8 in 2026 against grade 6 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 6
36%
exceeded standard · 74% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 47 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 8
31%
Advanced · 82% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 51 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 47 (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 · English+7 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

244 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, English: +7 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's −2-point median for California middle school records.

State model · math+20 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

243 students

CDE growth category: Exceptional

California growth model, math: +20 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Exceptional, against SchoolScope's −3-point median for California middle 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 middle school records, the median English estimate is −2 and the middle half fall between −10 and +5 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 · 5 in 100 → 2025–26 · 3 in 100 · −2 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 0.4% (1 of 257) → 2025–26 · 1.5% (4 of 267) · +1.1 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female4 in 1005 in 100+1 in 100
Male6 in 1001 in 100−5 in 100
Asian0 of 260 of 18—
Hispanic or Latino2 of 463 of 41—
Two or more races0 of 284 of 52—
White5 in 1001 in 100−4 in 100
Students with disabilities5 of 352 of 33—
English learners0 of 14——
Low-income4 of 282 of 20—
All students5 in 1003 in 100−2 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Where fewer than 100 students were counted, the cell shows the count and no change is printed. 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$29,597 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 491 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$694 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 252

Central federal expenditures attributed here$97 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 252

District current expense · FY 2024–25$40,230 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 59%Instruction support 15%Student services 6%Administration 11%Buildings & maintenance 9%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$11,132,70358.82%59%
Instruction support$2,784,21614.71%15%
Student services$1,124,0685.94%6%
Administration$2,184,13611.54%11%
Buildings & maintenance$1,701,7738.99%9%
Total$18,926,896100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $18,926,896 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$29,597 per pupil
2020$26,644 per pupil
2019$27,751 per pupil
2018$25,016 per pupil
2017$23,737 per pupil
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 94028 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 94028 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$250,001
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)83%
ZIP-area population6,531
Median age57.2 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 94028 →

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Data sources: public data sources, including the California Department of Education · state tests (CAASPP) 2025–26 · Scope Score from 2025–26 results, compared across 2,529 middle schools · attendance and suspensions by student group from 2018–19 and 2025–26 · district finance for the year each row names · Census survey (ACS) 2020–2024 · Data updated October 15, 2026

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