Crowne Hill Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Crowne Hill posts 56% meeting the standard, and 35.7% 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 | 57 | 36% | 56% | +7.9 | 17.5% | 0.8% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Crowne Hill Elementary scores 57 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 78th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🚀 Growth Engine — Ask how the school tracks each kid's growth year to year, and what happens when a kid stalls instead of gaining.
Most rating sites would stop at “56% proficient” and call it done. Crowne Hill deserves a closer read. The school sits in Temecula, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 78th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 56% meet the standard today, versus 65% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 56% | 44% | 56% | 67% | 52% |
| Grade 4 | 73% | 71% | 52% | 61% | 60% |
| Grade 5 | 77% | 72% | 70% | 58% | 67% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 59% | 46% | 59% | 67% | 54% |
| Grade 4 | 58% | 58% | 51% | 51% | 51% |
| Grade 5 | 64% | 47% | 47% | 40% | 55% |
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 rises 3.1pp across grades; the floor rises 15.0pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. 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 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 Crowne Hill Elementary in Temecula, 38.9% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 52.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Crowne Hill Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 13.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (30.9% Math proficient); White students (69.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 32.3 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 95 students tested.
8 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
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 5.4pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +6.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (26.4% vs 14.9%). 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.
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
$683 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 46% 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 69
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 55
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 33
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 | 63 | 35% | 17% | 24% | 24% | 52% | +9 |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 45% | 15% | 13% | 27% | 60% | +15 |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 38% | 29% | 15% | 17% | 67% | +20 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63 | 37% | 17% | 25% | 21% | 54% | +8 |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 30% | 20% | 33% | 16% | 51% | +9 |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 30% | 25% | 28% | 17% | 55% | +20 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 93 | 20% | 26% | 47% | 6% |
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 | 95 | 38.9% | −14 | +1 |
| White | 109 | 69.7% | +2 | +8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 97 | 48.5% | −7 | +10 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crowne Hill Elementary ← | — | 57 | 35.7% | 56.5% | +7.9 | 0.8% |
| Helen Hunt Jackson Elementary | 2.7 mi | 73 | 35.6% | 63.7% | +1.8 | 1.1% |
| Red Hawk Elementary | 2.4 mi | 67 | 38.9% | 67.4% | +8.6 | 0.5% |
| Abby Reinke Elementary | 0.7 mi | 67 | 44.5% | 74.1% | −8.7 | 1.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 64 | 84 | #857 | 32.5% | 64.7% | 11.2% | 0.6% | +13.0pp |
| 2022 | 59 | 87 | #750 | 30.4% | 56.2% | 26.1% | 0.4% | +14.3pp |
| 2023 | 54 | 78 | #1281 | 28.0% | 55.9% | 23.5% | 0.4% | +1.0pp |
| 2024 | 59 | 82 | #1057 | 31.7% | 57.3% | 20.2% | 0.1% | -17.9pp |
| 2025 | 57 | 78 | #1246 | 35.7% | 56.5% | 17.5% | 0.8% | +7.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 11.0% | 15.4% | +4.4pp |
| Male | 11.3% | 19.6% | +8.3pp |
| Asian | 30.8% | 13.0% | -17.8pp |
| White | 42.9% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 8.6% | 20.1% | +11.5pp |
| Two or More Races | 12.5% | 21.3% | +8.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 22.4% | 35.3% | +12.9pp |
| English Learners | 14.1% | 12.8% | -1.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 14.6% | 27.1% | +12.5pp |
| All Students | 11.2% | 17.5% | +6.3pp |
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