Douglas City Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Douglas City posts 71% meeting the standard, and 38.1% 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 | 68 | 38% | 71% | -6.6 | 8.5% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Douglas City Elementary scores 68 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 90th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “71% proficient” and call it done. Douglas City deserves a closer read. The school sits in Douglas City, where more than half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Douglas City's low-income kids hit 61.8% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 90th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 71% meet the standard today, versus 75% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63% | 56% | 64% | 71% | 84% |
| Grade 4 | 73% | 67% | 45% | 69% | 63% |
| Grade 5 | 74% | 67% | 60% | 50% | 79% |
| Grade 6 | 64% | 73% | 71% | 76% | 61% |
| Grade 7 | 73% | 75% | 76% | 45% | 69% |
| Grade 8 | 65% | 87% | 81% | 73% | 68% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 77% | 78% | 64% | 76% | 79% |
| Grade 4 | 87% | 67% | 59% | 75% | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 74% | 71% | 73% | 60% | 71% |
| Grade 6 | 50% | 64% | 71% | 71% | 56% |
| Grade 7 | 86% | 69% | 62% | 70% | 69% |
| Grade 8 | 65% | 73% | 69% | 73% | 79% |
Douglas City's most underrated number
61.8% 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 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 what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Douglas City Elementary in Douglas City, 61.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 61.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Douglas City Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (58.8% Math proficient); White students (63.5% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 34 students tested.
8 of 13 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.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
Douglas City Elementary serves grades TK-8. We don’t have attendance-boundary data showing which high school students here continue to, and we’d rather leave this blank than guess from whichever school happens to be nearest. The district office can tell you which high school your address is zoned for.
The people teaching here
What gets spent here
$797 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.
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 162 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 76% 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.
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Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 19 | 32% | 53% | 11% | 5% | 84% | +41 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 38% | 25% | 17% | 21% | 63% | +18 |
| Grade 5 | 14 | 36% | 43% | 7% | 14% | 79% | +31 |
| Grade 6 | 18 | 28% | 33% | 17% | 22% | 61% | +15 |
| Grade 7 | 16 | 19% | 50% | 25% | 6% | 69% | +21 |
| Grade 8 | 19 | 26% | 42% | 26% | 5% | 68% | +22 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 19 | 26% | 53% | 16% | 5% | 79% | +33 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 33% | 17% | 21% | 29% | 50% | +8 |
| Grade 5 | 14 | 64% | 7% | 0% | 29% | 71% | +36 |
| Grade 6 | 18 | 39% | 17% | 33% | 11% | 56% | +21 |
| Grade 7 | 16 | 25% | 44% | 13% | 19% | 69% | +35 |
| Grade 8 | 19 | 42% | 37% | 16% | 5% | 79% | +47 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 33 | 45% | 30% | 18% | 6% |
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 · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 34 | 61.8% | +0 | +24 |
| White | 52 | 63.5% | +0 | +2 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas City Elementary ← | — | 68 | 38.1% | 70.9% | −6.6 | 0.3% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 72 | 92 | #425 | 44.4% | 74.5% | 5.2% | 0.6% | +3.7pp |
| 2022 | 52 | 80 | #1160 | 27.9% | 67.5% | 7.7% | 0.6% | +2.4pp |
| 2023 | 62 | 87 | #769 | 36.4% | 61.1% | 10.3% | 0.1% | +2.4pp |
| 2024 | 54 | 76 | #1385 | 34.5% | 66.9% | 10.9% | 1.2% | -18.8pp |
| 2025 | 68 | 90 | #577 | 38.1% | 70.9% | 8.5% | 0.3% | -6.6pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 5.7% | 2.4% | -3.3pp |
| Male | 4.3% | 9.6% | +5.3pp |
| Asian | 6.7% | 0.0% | -6.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 4.2% | 7.1% | +2.9pp |
| Two or More Races | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 23.1% | 9.4% | -13.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 9.1% | 6.5% | -2.6pp |
| All Students | 5.0% | 6.0% | +1.0pp |
| English Learners | — | 0.0% | — |
| Homeless | — | 14.3% | — |
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