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Dayton Elementary

San Leandro, CA · Grades TK-5 · 340 students · San Lorenzo Unified

No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.

36% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 45% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

SchoolScope archetype

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Math

45%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

36%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

340

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

16%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

What are you trying to decide?

The overall score is a starting point.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

Share at Proficient or Advanced

0%25%50%75%100%2019: 37%2022: 41%2023: 33%2024: 40%2025: 45%2019: 47%2022: 35%2023: 36%2024: 40%2025: 36%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 37%2022: 41%2023: 33%2024: 40%2025: 45%2019: 47%2022: 35%2023: 36%2024: 40%2025: 36%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201937%47%
202241%35%
202333%36%
202440%40%
202545%36%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2019 to 2025

Has stayed near the 48th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “40% proficient” and call it done. Dayton deserves a closer read. Two-thirds of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

160 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 44 tracked

Dayton Elementary scores 35 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 48th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 40% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 51st percentile · Scope Score 37 of 1002022 · 47th percentile · Scope Score 30 of 1002023 · 47th percentile · Scope Score 31 of 1002024 · 69th percentile · Scope Score 45 of 1002025 · 48th percentile · Scope Score 35 of 100
ELAOrange(Declined)MathYellow(Declined)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 348%26%36%38%39%
Grade 446%28%38%53%40%
Grade 547%43%37%42%32%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 341%44%48%45%57%
Grade 441%26%24%56%43%
Grade 532%38%19%34%27%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in three of students here meet the standard. One in five clear it by a lot.

ELA38% met or exceeded
Exceeded 20%Met 18%Nearly Met 28%Not Met 35%
Math44% met or exceeded
Exceeded 24%Met 21%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 32%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)AbsenceSuspension
This school3521%40%Weak · p3716.1%1.1%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%Average · p5017.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3539
% Exceeded21%21%
% Met+40%43%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Weak · p37Average · p50
Absence16.1%17.9%
Suspension1.1%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

Our growth read and California's own model agree — both land near the 32nd percentile of elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do. The two measures land in the same neighbourhood here — ours puts this school around the 37th percentile of California elementary schools, the state's around the 32nd in reading and math together. Two different methods agreeing is the most you can ask of one year of test data.

— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.

The returning cohort, two years on
ELA · 2023 · Grade 3
14%
exceeded standard · 36% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 5
16%
exceeded standard · 32% met or exceeded

Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.

Both measures, each ranked in its own field
Our growth measurereturning cohort, G3→G5SchoolScope growth measure: 37th percentile among California elementary schools.37th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 31st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.31st pctile · −4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −5 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 33rd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.33rd pctile · −5 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard behind the same group statewide.

At Dayton Elementary in San Leandro, 33.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 25.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Dayton Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 7.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (36.8% Math proficient); Asian students (50.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 33.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 113 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 41% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 41%, district —, state 43%41%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 35%, district 22%, state 32%35% · −6 vs school
MaleMale: this school 38%, district 27%, state 42%38% · −3 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 45%, district 27%, state 44%45% · +4 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 57%, district 50%, state 72%57% · +16 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 13%, district 7%, state 11%13% · −28 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 24%, district 20%, state 32%24% · −17 vs school

8 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 1.1pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +2.3pp.

ShowHide California's growth model by student group
The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California elementary school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
Low-income students66 studentsLow-income students, reading: 0 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 66 students.0 pts · 0 vs typical
English Learner43 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 43 students.+3 pts · +5 vs typical
English Only37 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −4 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 37 students.−4 pts · −7 vs typical
Asian35 studentsAsian, reading: +8 scale-score points versus expectation, against +7 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.+8 pts · +1 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students33 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: −16 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 33 students.−16 pts · −17 vs typical
Math
Low-income students65 studentsLow-income students, math: −7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 65 students.−7 pts · −6 vs typical
English Learner43 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +4 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 43 students.+4 pts · +2 vs typical
English Only36 studentsEnglish Only, math: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 36 students.−8 pts · −9 vs typical
Asian35 studentsAsian, math: +14 scale-score points versus expectation, against +16 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 35 students.+14 pts · −2 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students32 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: −21 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 32 students.−21 pts · −20 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 3 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 24 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher24 · district 22
Teaching staff18 teachers
Avg. experience18.9 years
First-year teachers6%
PrincipalPete Gidlund
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Teacher salary schedule$69,152 – $136,428
Principal salary$161,236 – $176,480
Superintendent salary$407,524

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended less, than the state average.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 16.1%, district 23.3%, state 17.9%16.1% · −1.8pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 1.1%, district —, state 1.6%1.1% · −0.5pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–614.7%
TK/K21.5%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $22,859 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$59 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $22,859, CA average $14,491$22,859 · spent at this school
Federal share$59 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$24,271 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 60%Instruction support 12%Student services 9%Administration 8%Buildings & maintenance 11%Other 1%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$14,346 per pupil
2019$13,545 per pupil
2018$13,748 per pupil
2017$11,408 per pupil
2016$11,052 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Two-thirds of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

On the state's science test (CAST), 22% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.

Hispanic or Latino34.1% · district 58.1% · CA 56.1%
White8.2% · district 5.2% · CA 19.9%
Asian37.9% · district 17.7% · CA 10.2%
Black2.4% · district 7.3% · CA 4.8%
Other17.4% · district 11.8% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch71.2% · CA 64%
Median income$99K · CA $85K
Median home value$850K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+28% · CA 35%
ZIP population20,017
Median age46 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Family voices

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Dayton ElementaryPublicDeveloping21%40%School being viewed
Madison ElementaryPublicSolid28%56%0.6 mi
Bay ElementaryPublicSolid22%44%1.2 mi
Del Rey ElementaryPublicSolid14%32%1.7 mi
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Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.

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Moving & enrollment

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Arroyo HighScope 60estimated path

The road from this school ends at Arroyo High, which sent 48 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 13 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Arroyo High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 71% of Arroyo High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

48 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 13 AP subjects taught → full record on Arroyo High's page
Source: UC & College Board

Source: proximity. Schools are grouped by grade stage. Nearby schools are not confirmed feeder links or address assignments. Verify the current path and eligibility with the district.

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Worth a school visit

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  • Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
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  • 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.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Dayton Elementary a good elementary school?
Dayton Elementary has a Scope Score of 35 out of 100, placing it in the 48th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #3,001 statewide. 21.1% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is near the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Dayton Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 39.8% of students at Dayton Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 21.1% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 18.6% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 21.1% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 321 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Dayton Elementary rank in California?
Dayton Elementary ranks #3,001 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 48th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
Is Dayton Elementary getting better or worse?
SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Dayton Elementary that cohort is 2023 G3 → 2025 G5, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks weak among California elementary schools — roughly the 37th percentile, behind the typical school at this level. Read the ranking, not the raw point gain: scale scores rise with age, so nearly every school posts a positive number and only the relative position tells you anything. Growth is weighted at 20% in the elementary Scope Score because it is the least demographically confounded signal available — it tracks change over time rather than the level students arrived at. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Dayton Elementary?
16.1% of students at Dayton Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 1.1%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Dayton Elementary compare to other schools in San Leandro?
Dayton Elementary scores 35/100 (48th percentile) among California elementary schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 340 students. Use the schools in San Leandro page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Dayton Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Dayton Elementary in San Leandro, 33.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 25.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Dayton Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 7.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (36.8% Math proficient); Asian students (50.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 33.0 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 113 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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Behind the evidence

Inspect the full record

Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 6 things our score weighs

The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 67 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard21.1%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded39.8%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Weakaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism16.1%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.1%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)16.9%18.0%5%

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Dayton Elementary: reading the evidence

Dayton posts 40% meeting the standard and 21.1% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.4% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

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.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Dayton Elementary is ranked #3,001 statewide · #3 of 9 in San Lorenzo Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard21.1%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded39.8%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Weakaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism16.1%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.1%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)16.9%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 50 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 48 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)
↓ vs CA average · 37th pctile
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 53 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 4.5pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 54 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 1.0pp higher vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↓ vs CA 18.0% · index 49 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 36120%20%25%36%39%−4
Grade 45524%16%33%27%40%−5
Grade 54416%16%25%43%32%−16
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 36130%28%18%25%57%+12
Grade 45627%16%25%32%43%+2
Grade 54411%16%30%43%27%−8

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide454%18%53%24%

CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged11333.6%+8−5
Asian6550.8%−0−24
English Learners535.7%+0−5
03Nearest elementary schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Dayton Elementary ←—3521.1%39.8%−18.8pp+67 pts1.1%
Madison Elementary0.6 mi4828.1%56.3%+12.9pp—2.1%
Bay Elementary1.2 mi4322.3%44.4%−7.5pp—0.1%
Del Rey Elementary1.7 mi3613.9%31.7%+1.3pp—0.3%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20193751#266818.3%42.6%10.1%0.7%-4.5pp
20223047#303813.7%34.2%43.3%0.8%+5.5pp
20233147#304613.6%33.6%24.5%0.9%-14.1pp
20244569#178622.6%44.6%20.6%0.1%-4.0pp
20253548#300121.1%39.8%16.1%1.1%-18.8pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female10.4%16.3%+5.9pp
Male9.9%15.5%+5.6pp
Asian1.7%5.8%+4.1pp
Black/African American21.4%——
Filipino5.6%11.9%+6.3pp
Hispanic/Latino17.5%24.4%+6.9pp
Two or More Races8.7%15.4%+6.7pp
White14.3%17.2%+2.9pp
Students with Disabilities25.5%23.0%-2.5pp
English Learners8.1%11.0%+2.9pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged12.8%18.6%+5.8pp
All Students10.1%15.9%+5.8pp
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−492Average−591Average
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged066Average−765Moderate
English Learner+343Average+443Average
English Only−437not categorised−836not categorised
Asian+835Accelerated+1435Accelerated
Hispanic or Latino−1633Moderate−2132Minimal
English Learners Only−1024not categorised−124not categorised
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+2119not categorised+1619not categorised
Filipino+2411Exceptional+1811Accelerated

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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