E. J. Marshall Elementary: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
E. J. Marshall posts 48% meeting the standard against 43% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 46 | 20% | 48% | -4.8 | 15.2% | 0.3% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
E. J. Marshall Elementary scores 46 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 59th percentile of 5,744 California elementary 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 “48% proficient” and call it done. E. J. Marshall deserves a closer read. The school sits in Chino, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
E. J. Marshall's low-income kids hit 48.7% 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
Climbed from the 29th to the 59th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1600 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 48% of students meet the standard today, above the 40% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 48% | 41% | 56% | 53% | 52% |
| Grade 4 | 35% | 50% | 44% | 38% | 49% |
| Grade 5 | 43% | 52% | 61% | 40% | 56% |
| Grade 6 | 49% | 52% | 47% | 62% | 44% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 52% | 35% | 45% | 55% | 48% |
| Grade 4 | 32% | 24% | 23% | 30% | 46% |
| Grade 5 | 27% | 22% | 36% | 22% | 34% |
| Grade 6 | 17% | 17% | 32% | 41% | 31% |
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 4.0pp across grades; the floor rises 4.7pp. 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.
E. J. Marshall's most underrated number
48.7% 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 E. J. Marshall Elementary in Chino, 48.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 53.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. E. J. Marshall Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 5.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (37.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (48.4% ELA proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 199 students tested.
6 of 14 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 2.6pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +3.2pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (26.6% vs 13.2%). 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
$416 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 29% 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 3 | 56 | 25% | 27% | 25% | 23% | 52% | +8 |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 23% | 26% | 21% | 30% | 49% | +4 |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 29% | 27% | 23% | 21% | 56% | +9 |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 15% | 29% | 17% | 38% | 44% | −2 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 56 | 16% | 32% | 18% | 34% | 48% | +3 |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 8% | 38% | 31% | 23% | 46% | +4 |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 17% | 17% | 25% | 42% | 34% | −1 |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 12% | 19% | 23% | 46% | 31% | −4 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 65 | 5% | 25% | 60% | 11% |
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 | 199 | 48.7% | −5 | +11 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 184 | 48.4% | −3 | +10 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. J. Marshall Elementary ← | — | 46 | 19.8% | 47.5% | −4.8 | 0.3% |
| Monte Vista Elementary | 2.5 mi | 67 | 33.3% | 57.8% | −2.0 | 0.1% |
| Edwin Rhodes Elementary | 2.8 mi | 60 | 35.9% | 60.1% | −3.0 | 2.1% |
| Montera Elementary | 2.1 mi | 55 | 26.3% | 47.8% | −9.7 | 0.7% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 34 | 29 | #3911 | 14.9% | 39.5% | 8.7% | 1.5% | -15.3pp |
| 2022 | 34 | 45 | #3160 | 13.9% | 37.4% | 32.0% | 1.1% | -0.9pp |
| 2023 | 45 | 64 | #2036 | 19.4% | 44.1% | 26.0% | 1.1% | -2.2pp |
| 2024 | 35 | 30 | #4012 | 14.6% | 39.6% | 20.6% | 0.3% | -23.3pp |
| 2025 | 46 | 59 | #2343 | 19.8% | 47.5% | 15.2% | 0.3% | -4.8pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 8.9% | 11.8% | +2.9pp |
| Male | 8.5% | 17.7% | +9.2pp |
| Asian | 6.3% | 4.8% | -1.5pp |
| Black/African American | 50.0% | — | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | 7.8% | 15.6% | +7.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 7.7% | 28.2% | +20.5pp |
| English Learners | 9.5% | 14.8% | +5.3pp |
| Foster Youth | 0.0% | 15.4% | +15.4pp |
| Homeless | 12.7% | 13.8% | +1.1pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 9.6% | 15.4% | +5.8pp |
| All Students | 8.7% | 14.9% | +6.2pp |
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