Crossroads Alternative Education Center: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Crossroads Alternative Education Center posts 9% meeting the standard and 0.9% exceeding it, against 36% and 15.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 33 | 1% | 9% | 95.5% | 0.0% | 15.9% | 0.8% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Crossroads Alternative Education Center scores 33 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 27th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 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 “9% proficient” and call it done. Crossroads Alternative Education Center deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Banos, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 15.9% chronic absenteeism — versus 30.2% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 27th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 9% meet the standard today, versus 17% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | — | 19% | 33% | — | 17% |
| Grade 11 | 34% | 23% | 27% | 21% | 18% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | — | 10% | 0% | — | 9% |
| Grade 11 | 0% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 0% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 9 are proficient by 11th grade → 96 graduate → 0 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 7 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 share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- 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 Crossroads Alternative Education Center in Los Banos, 16.4% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 31.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Crossroads Alternative Education Center trails its district average for low-income students by 15.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (2.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (18.9% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 80 students tested.
8 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 7–8 students (12.7% vs 5.9%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
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.
$847 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 183 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 6% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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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 7 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 8 | 23 | 0% | 17% | 26% | 57% | 17% | −29 |
| Grade 11 | 57 | 2% | 16% | 32% | 51% | 18% | −30 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 8 | 23 | 0% | 9% | 4% | 87% | 9% | −24 |
| Grade 11 | 57 | 0% | 0% | 9% | 91% | 0% | −23 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 81 | 0% | 6% | 73% | 21% |
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 | 80 | 16.4% | −15 | −22 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 75 | 18.9% | −14 | −20 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Alternative Education Center ← | — | 33 | 0.9% | 8.8% | — | 0.8% |
| Los Banos High | 1.7 mi | 47 | 9.3% | 30.3% | — | 4.7% |
| San Luis High (Continuation) | 1.6 mi | 36 | 2.0% | 5.0% | — | 9.6% |
| Valley Los Banos Community | 1 mi | 24 | 0.0% | 7.0% | — | 1.5% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 37 | 33 | #1374 | 8.5% | 17.1% | 28.5% | 1.3% | — |
| 2022 | 34 | 30 | #1459 | 2.1% | 13.8% | 11.8% | 0.7% | — |
| 2023 | 34 | 30 | #1499 | 2.1% | 14.6% | 17.4% | 0.9% | — |
| 2024 | 33 | 29 | #1520 | 1.5% | 11.2% | 17.5% | 0.8% | — |
| 2025 | 33 | 27 | #1578 | 0.9% | 8.8% | 15.9% | 0.8% | — |
- — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 22 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 25.3% | 9.6% | -15.7pp |
| Male | 35.8% | 14.2% | -21.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 32.4% | 13.0% | -19.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 30.0% | 27.7% | -2.3pp |
| English Learners | 43.5% | 22.9% | -20.6pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 31.1% | 12.2% | -18.9pp |
| All Students | 29.2% | 11.8% | -17.4pp |
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