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El Marino Elementary

Culver City, CA · Grades TK-5 · 795 students · Culver City Unified

Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.

68% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 72% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

SchoolScope archetype

Solid Base

What this means for your family

Ask what the school does for a kid who's already meeting the standard with room to spare — steady proficiency across the board doesn't tell you whether the strongest kids are being pushed further.

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PrincipalPaul Karaiakoubian
GradesTK-5
Enrollment795 students

Math

72%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

68%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

795

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

4%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

What are you trying to decide?

The overall score is a starting point.

Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.

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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: 76%2022: 66%2023: 70%2024: 66%2025: 72%2019: 77%2022: 75%2023: 74%2024: 70%2025: 68%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 76%2022: 66%2023: 70%2024: 66%2025: 72%2019: 77%2022: 75%2023: 74%2024: 70%2025: 68%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201976%77%
202266%75%
202370%74%
202466%70%
202572%68%

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 held the 90th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “73% proficient” and call it done. El Marino deserves a closer read. It sits at the 90th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.

El Marino's low-income kids hit 56.8% 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.

366 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 115 tracked

El Marino Elementary scores 64 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 90th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 73% meet the standard today, versus 78% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 93rd percentile · Scope Score 72 of 1002022 · 92nd percentile · Scope Score 70 of 1002023 · 90th percentile · Scope Score 68 of 1002024 · 83rd percentile · Scope Score 57 of 1002025 · 90th percentile · Scope Score 64 of 100
ELABlue(Increased)MathBlue(Increased)
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 372%77%71%72%65%
Grade 478%76%74%73%75%
Grade 581%73%78%67%72%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 381%78%77%81%76%
Grade 487%83%76%77%81%
Grade 572%53%63%52%67%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

Two-thirds of students here meet the standard. Two in five clear it by a lot.

ELA70% met or exceeded
Exceeded 48%Met 22%Nearly Met 17%Not Met 12%
Math75% met or exceeded
Exceeded 46%Met 28%Nearly Met 18%Not Met 7%
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 school6447%73%Below avg · p463.6%0.1%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%Average · p5017.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope6439
% Exceeded47%21%
% Met+73%43%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Below avg · p46Average · p50
Absence3.6%17.9%
Suspension0.1%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 60th percentile in reading against the 84th in math, among 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 — and its two subjects part company here. It puts this school around the 60th percentile of California elementary schools in reading and the 84th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 46th. A gap that size between math and reading in one building is worth asking about directly — one year of data can't tell you whether it is the teaching, the cohort, or noise.

— 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
45%
exceeded standard · 71% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 5
39%
exceeded standard · 72% 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: 46th percentile among California elementary schools.46th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 60th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.60th pctile · +4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +14 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 84th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.84th pctile · +14 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 ahead of the same group statewide.

56.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. This comparison does not tell us what caused the difference.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 73% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 73%, district —, state 43%73%
FemaleFemale: this school 73%, district 61%, state 44%73% · +1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 72%, district 58%, state 42%72% · −1 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 68%, district 44%, state 32%68% · −5 vs school
Two or More RacesTwo or More Races: this school 82%, district 73%, state 56%82% · +9 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 60%, district 37%, state 32%60% · −12 vs school
AsianAsian: this school 66%, district 74%, state 72%66% · −7 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 81%, district 76%, state 56%81% · +8 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 29%, district 14%, state 11%29% · −43 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: too few students to report‹11
Black/African AmericanBlack/African American: too few students to report‹11
FilipinoFilipino: too few students to report‹11
Military-ConnectedMilitary-Connected: too few students to report‹11
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 0.0pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +3.8pp.

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
English Only126 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 126 students.+3 pts · 0 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students91 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +10 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 91 students.+10 pts · +9 vs typical
Two or more races56 studentsTwo or more races, reading: +8 scale-score points versus expectation, against +7 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 56 students.+8 pts · +1 vs typical
English Learner54 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 54 students.−3 pts · −1 vs typical
Low-income students47 studentsLow-income students, reading: −4 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 47 students.−4 pts · −4 vs typical
Math
English Only126 studentsEnglish Only, math: +10 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 126 students.+10 pts · +9 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students91 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +9 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 91 students.+9 pts · +10 vs typical
Two or more races56 studentsTwo or more races, math: +21 scale-score points versus expectation, against +7 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 56 students.+21 pts · +14 vs typical
English Learner54 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +21 scale-score points versus expectation, against +2 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 54 students.+21 pts · +19 vs typical
Low-income students47 studentsLow-income students, math: +11 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 47 students.+11 pts · +12 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 22 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher22 · district 21
Teaching staff41 teachers
Avg. experience18.0 years
Fully credentialed100%
First-year teachers2%
PrincipalPaul Karaiakoubian
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$60,905 – $120,580
Principal salary$146,567 – $173,015
Superintendent salary$283,000

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.

TK/K students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (7.6% vs 1.3%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 3.6%, district 10.0%, state 17.9%3.6% · −14.3pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.1%, district —, state 1.6%0.1% · −1.6pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–61.3%
TK/K7.6%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $19,268 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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: $19,268, CA average $14,491$19,268 · spent at this school
District current expense · FY 2024–25$19,208 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 60%Instruction support 15%Student services 10%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 9%

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$12,510 per pupil
2019$12,217 per pupil
2018$11,949 per pupil
2017$12,209 per pupil
2016$11,853 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 795 students, this school is well above 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), 43% 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 Latino39.8% · district 37.5% · CA 56.1%
White15.2% · district 25.0% · CA 19.9%
Asian17.9% · district 10.3% · CA 10.2%
Black2.4% · district 10.2% · CA 4.8%
Other24.8% · district 17.0% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch18.6% · CA 64%
Median income$107K · CA $85K
Median home value$1.02M · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+58% · CA 35%
ZIP population31,009
Median age41 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

The approach El Marino Elementary describes

Themes from the school’s own website. Use these alongside the published record and your questions for a visit.

Source: elmarino.ccusd.org ↗ · Read 2026-08-08

Values & approach

The school’s published description

The school is committed to the principle that all students can become bilingual and biliterate during elementary school years.

Read source ↗ · 2026-08-08

Ask on a visit

How does this approach show up in an ordinary lesson?

Family & community

The school’s published description

The school has Programs and Events including PTA Cultural Assemblies, Drop Zone, Special Education Committee, Japanese Reading Program, and Club de Lectura.

Read source ↗ · 2026-08-08

Ask on a visit

What are the practical ways families can participate?

Beyond the classroom

The school’s published description

Chorus is open to all students in grades 2-5 and rehearses every Thursday morning from 8:00-8:35 in the auditorium.

Read source ↗ · 2026-08-08

Ask on a visit

Which activities are currently running, and who can take part?

These themes describe the school’s own account. Academic and attendance results add context; they do not verify how a classroom feels or what caused an outcome.

Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

Ask a current family: “When your child needs help, how does the school respond?”

Educator voices

What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?

Ask an educator: “How do you adapt a typical day for children with different needs?”

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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
El Marino ElementaryPublicStrong47%73%School being viewed
Clover Avenue ElementaryPublicStrong66%86%2.8 mi
Kentwood ElementaryPublicStrong63%81%2.0 mi
Mar Vista ElementaryPublicStrong55%83%2.5 mi
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Nearby public schools across grade levels, plus private options within 10 miles.

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Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.

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Moving & enrollment

Which schools could serve my child?

Check your address with the district

School location and nearby schools do not establish attendance eligibility. Confirm boundaries and permit requirements with Culver City Unified.

District information →

Schools across the K–12 journey

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.

Plan your next step

What should I do next?

Worth a school visit

Ask how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.

  • 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.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is El Marino Elementary a good elementary school?
El Marino Elementary has a Scope Score of 64 out of 100, placing it in the 90th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #574 statewide. 47.4% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 26.0 percentage points above 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 El Marino Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 72.7% of students at El Marino Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 47.4% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 25.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 47.4% 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. 734 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does El Marino Elementary rank in California?
El Marino Elementary ranks #574 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 90th 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 El Marino 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 El Marino Elementary that cohort is 2023 G3 → 2025 G5, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks below avg among California elementary schools — roughly the 46th 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 El Marino Elementary?
3.6% of students at El Marino 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 0.1%, 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 El Marino Elementary compare to other schools in Culver City?
El Marino Elementary scores 64/100 (90th 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 795 students. Use the schools in Culver City page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does El Marino Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At El Marino Elementary in Culver City, 56.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 44.5% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. El Marino Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 12.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (63.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (69.5% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 56.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 74 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.

Use the published evidence to prepare questions, then verify fit and access with the school.

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

How far the top scorers get carries this score.

47.4% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 21.4%.

The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 73 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 standard47.4%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded72.7%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Below avgaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism3.6%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.1%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)29.4%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

El Marino Elementary: reading the evidence

El Marino posts 73% meeting the standard, and 47.4% 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.

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

Ask what the school does for a kid who's already meeting the standard with room to spare — steady proficiency across the board doesn't tell you whether the strongest kids are being pushed further.

Explore the underlying data →
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.

El Marino Elementary is ranked #574 statewide · #3 of 5 in Culver City Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard47.4%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded72.7%42.7%23%
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)Below avgaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism3.6%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.1%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)29.4%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 21.4% · index 75 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 42.7% · index 73 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5)
↓ vs CA average · 46th pctile
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 73 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 0.8pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 63 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · → no change vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↑ vs CA 18.0% · index 67 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 313447%18%22%13%65%+22
Grade 411858%17%18%7%75%+31
Grade 511439%33%12%16%72%+24
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 313540%36%17%7%76%+30
Grade 411853%28%18%1%81%+40
Grade 511547%20%21%12%67%+32

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
Schoolwide11517%27%48%9%

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 Disadvantaged7456.8%+12+19
Hispanic/Latino14169.5%+17+31
Two or More Races8280.5%+2+19
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
El Marino Elementary ←—6447.4%72.7%−0.8pp+73 pts0.1%
Clover Avenue Elementary2.8 mi8065.6%86.3%−3.9pp—0.5%
Kentwood Elementary2 mi7563.2%80.7%−14.8pp—0.4%
Mar Vista Elementary2.5 mi7455.0%83.1%−1.1pp—0.1%
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
20197293#40648.7%78.5%2.2%0.3%+0.0pp
20227092#47344.9%73.5%8.7%0.1%-14.3pp
20236890#56542.8%73.3%8.1%0.2%-3.3pp
20245783#97243.7%70.3%4.4%0.1%-16.8pp
20256490#57447.4%72.7%3.6%0.1%-0.8pp
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
Female2.1%3.8%+1.7pp
Male1.7%2.2%+0.5pp
Asian0.7%2.7%+2.0pp
Black/African American0.0%0.0%+0.0pp
Hispanic/Latino3.3%5.6%+2.3pp
Two or More Races1.1%0.6%-0.5pp
White1.6%0.8%-0.8pp
Students with Disabilities1.5%0.0%-1.5pp
English Learners1.4%5.1%+3.7pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged5.6%9.1%+3.5pp
All Students1.9%3.0%+1.1pp
Filipino—0.0%—
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
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GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+4228Average+14228Accelerated
English Only+3126not categorised+10126not categorised
Hispanic or Latino+1091Accelerated+991Accelerated
Two or More Races+856Accelerated+2156Exceptional
English Learner−354Average+2154Exceptional
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−447Average+1147Accelerated
Asian−2240Minimal+2540Exceptional
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+1335not categorised+1935not categorised
White+629Accelerated−429Average
English Learners Only−3219not categorised+2019not categorised
Students with Disabilities−1517Moderate+617Accelerated

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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