Creston Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Creston posts 27% meeting the standard and 19.2% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.3% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 38 | 19% | 27% | — | 14.1% | 2.4% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Creston Elementary scores 38 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 39th 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 →
🌱 Building Momentum — This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.
Most rating sites would stop at “27% proficient” and call it done. Creston deserves a closer read. The school sits in Creston, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 39th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 27% meet the standard today, versus 44% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 46% | 23% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 54% | 31% |
The 4 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 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.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below is estimated from nearby schools in the same district — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated K-12 path based on district and proximity. Actual attendance zones may differ. 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
$1,367 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 61 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
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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 | 13 | 15% | 8% | 23% | 54% | 23% | −20 |
| Grade 4 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 13 | 23% | 8% | 23% | 46% | 31% | −15 |
| Grade 4 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 5 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creston Elementary ← | — | 38 | 19.2% | 26.9% | — | 2.4% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 37 | 36 | #3536 | 12.5% | 43.8% | 6.8% | 5.8% | -12.5pp |
| 2022 | 21 | 11 | #5103 | 0.0% | 31.8% | 31.2% | 1.5% | — |
| 2025 | 38 | 39 | #3512 | 19.2% | 26.9% | 14.1% | 2.4% | — |
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
- — Subgroup results are suppressed for small student counts (fewer than 15 tested), following CDE privacy rules.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 2.9% | 7.1% | +4.2pp |
| Male | 8.6% | 11.8% | +3.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 13.3% | 6.3% | -7.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 0.0% | 25.0% | +25.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 5.7% | 17.2% | +11.5pp |
| All Students | 5.8% | 9.7% | +3.9pp |
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