Crocker Highlands Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Crocker Highlands posts 73% meeting the standard, and 43.6% 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 | 63 | 44% | 73% | +3.4 | 6.0% | 0.9% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Crocker Highlands Elementary scores 63 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 86th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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💪 Strong All-Around — Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.
Most rating sites would stop at “73% proficient” and call it done. Crocker Highlands deserves a closer read. It sits at the 86th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The headline number: 6.0% chronic absenteeism — versus 17.9% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 86th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 73% meet the standard today, versus 78% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 76% | 76% | 78% | 74% | 66% |
| Grade 4 | 78% | 72% | 73% | 75% | 73% |
| Grade 5 | 85% | 68% | 72% | 77% | 82% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 83% | 88% | 84% | 77% | 76% |
| Grade 4 | 76% | 68% | 66% | 74% | 75% |
| Grade 5 | 70% | 57% | 61% | 67% | 67% |
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 6.9pp across grades; the floor rises 15.4pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
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 which schools families here actually choose next — the zoned path is only the default.
- 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 Crocker Highlands Elementary in Oakland, 48.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 24.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Crocker Highlands Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 24.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (41.8% Math proficient); White students (84.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 26.6 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 54 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 52.4pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +7.6pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The zoned path continues to Edna Brewer Middle, which scores 15 points lower than this school — worth weighing alongside everything above. Families here often look at charter or magnet options for middle school.
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.
$489 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), 68% 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 74
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 69
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 | 71 | 45% | 21% | 14% | 20% | 66% | +23 |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 50% | 23% | 15% | 13% | 73% | +28 |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 38% | 43% | 11% | 8% | 82% | +34 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 70 | 43% | 33% | 14% | 10% | 76% | +30 |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 40% | 35% | 17% | 8% | 75% | +33 |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 46% | 21% | 24% | 9% | 67% | +32 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 76 | 30% | 38% | 29% | 3% |
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 | 54 | 48.1% | +24 | +10 |
| White | 73 | 84.9% | +17 | +23 |
| Two or More Races | 53 | 75.5% | +22 | +14 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crocker Highlands Elementary ← | — | 63 | 43.6% | 73.0% | +3.4 | 0.9% |
| Beach Elementary | 1.3 mi | 76 | 63.1% | 89.7% | +2.2 | 2.1% |
| Wildwood Elementary | 0.7 mi | 73 | 56.4% | 85.0% | −7.5 | 0.4% |
| Havens Elementary | 1 mi | 73 | 49.7% | 78.5% | −2.8 | 0.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 68 | 88 | #636 | 48.8% | 77.9% | 6.8% | 0.2% | -2.0pp |
| 2022 | 59 | 87 | #764 | 44.9% | 71.5% | 10.2% | 0.0% | -19.1pp |
| 2023 | 58 | 82 | #1002 | 44.1% | 72.2% | 32.8% | 0.9% | -14.7pp |
| 2024 | 67 | 89 | #607 | 49.4% | 74.1% | 8.5% | 0.6% | -3.6pp |
| 2025 | 63 | 86 | #808 | 43.6% | 73.0% | 6.0% | 0.9% | +3.4pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 6.2% | 3.8% | -2.4pp |
| Male | 7.2% | 6.2% | -1.0pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Black/African American | 17.5% | 12.5% | -5.0pp |
| Filipino | 11.1% | 9.5% | -1.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 16.0% | 10.3% | -5.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 0.0% | 1.1% | +1.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 10.6% | 5.8% | -4.8pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 25.0% | 13.0% | -12.0pp |
| All Students | 6.7% | 5.1% | -1.6pp |
| English Learners | — | 16.7% | — |
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