Da Vinci Connect: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Da Vinci Connect pairs 49% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
Da Vinci Connect scores 55 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 76th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “49% proficient” and call it done. Da Vinci Connect deserves a closer read. The school sits in Hawthorne, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +7.8pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
As a charter, Da Vinci Connect enrolls by application, not address — the score reads the same, the enrollment path doesn't.
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 3.3pp across grades; the floor rises 14.9pp. 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.
Da Vinci Connect's most underrated number
53.8% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 5 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
K-12 Path
Da Vinci Connect serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here.
Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 83
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
The community around it
Student demographics
3 more gaps by subject
Subgroups with fewer than 15 students are excluded for privacy. Gaps of less than 3 percentage points are not shown.
Weighted average across tested grades. Subgroups with fewer than 15 students excluded. Data: CDE CAASPP 2024-25.
Subgroup Growth by Grade
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 16.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +3.3pp.
Subgroups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Funding Breakdown
Neighborhood Context
Whole Child
Source: CDE SARC, 2024-25
For the data nerdsEvery number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
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 | 49 | 29% | 22% | 24% | 24% | 51% | +8 |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 26% | 28% | 20% | 26% | 54% | +9 |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 32% | 34% | 23% | 11% | 66% | +18 |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 27% | 35% | 23% | 15% | 62% | +15 |
| Grade 7 | 76 | 29% | 43% | 13% | 14% | 72% | +25 |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 40% | 29% | 19% | 11% | 69% | +23 |
| Grade 11 | 84 | 26% | 38% | 21% | 14% | 64% | +17 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 49 | 27% | 18% | 20% | 35% | 45% | −1 |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 6% | 26% | 42% | 26% | 32% | −10 |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 24% | 22% | 28% | 26% | 46% | +10 |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 32% | 17% | 24% | 27% | 49% | +14 |
| Grade 7 | 76 | 28% | 24% | 24% | 25% | 51% | +17 |
| Grade 8 | 62 | 29% | 21% | 19% | 31% | 50% | +18 |
| Grade 11 | 81 | 7% | 7% | 25% | 60% | 15% | −9 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 300 | 10% | 27% | 55% | 7% |
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 | 186 | 53.8% | +1 | +16 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 146 | 58.2% | +0 | +19 |
| Two or More Races | 84 | 63.1% | −12 | +2 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Da Vinci Connect ← | — | 55 | 23.8% | 48.9% | +7.8 | 1.0% |
| Pacific Elementary | 2.7 mi | 85 | 61.1% | 83.3% | +10.3 | 0.5% |
| Meadows Avenue Elementary | 2.4 mi | 83 | 61.8% | 86.9% | −0.6 | 1.4% |
| Grand View Elementary | 2.8 mi | 79 | 53.1% | 83.0% | +16.1 | 0.4% |
| California average | — | 43 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.