El Tejon Elementary: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
El Tejon posts 30% meeting the standard and 11.2% exceeding it, against 39% and 16.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 44 | 11% | 30% | +16.5 | 7.8% | 5.2% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
El Tejon Elementary scores 44 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 58th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “30% proficient” and call it done. El Tejon deserves a closer read. The school sits in Lebec, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 7.8% chronic absenteeism — versus 18.5% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 27th to the 58th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 500 middle schools.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 30% meet the standard today, versus 39% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 31% | 47% | 33% | 33% | 44% |
| Grade 6 | 48% | 34% | 44% | 17% | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 57% | 33% | 36% | 42% | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 43% | 36% | 18% | 39% | 54% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 16% | 16% | 20% | 17% | 25% |
| Grade 6 | 29% | 6% | 10% | 26% | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 35% | 6% | 10% | 19% | 19% |
| Grade 8 | 21% | 5% | 5% | 16% | 30% |
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 20.0pp across grades; the floor rises 18.4pp. The state average falls 0.5pp 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.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- 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 El Tejon Elementary in Lebec, 36.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 37.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. El Tejon Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 0.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (20.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (33.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 7.0 percentage points for hispanic students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 178 students tested.
7 of 15 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 20.1pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +20.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
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
$839 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
At 221 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 28% 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 5 | 50 | 8% | 36% | 14% | 42% | 44% | −4 |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 4% | 32% | 32% | 32% | 36% | −11 |
| Grade 7 | 53 | 8% | 19% | 25% | 49% | 26% | −21 |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 24% | 31% | 27% | 19% | 54% | +8 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 51 | 12% | 14% | 25% | 49% | 25% | −10 |
| Grade 6 | 52 | 8% | 8% | 31% | 54% | 15% | −20 |
| Grade 7 | 53 | 11% | 8% | 32% | 49% | 19% | −15 |
| Grade 8 | 60 | 13% | 17% | 18% | 52% | 30% | −2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 111 | 9% | 19% | 59% | 13% |
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 | 178 | 36.2% | −1 | −2 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 109 | 33.4% | −3 | −5 |
| White | 84 | 45.2% | +3 | −17 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Tejon Elementary ← | — | 44 | 11.2% | 30.1% | +16.5 | 5.2% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 30 | 27 | #1457 | 10.5% | 38.7% | 15.2% | 12.1% | -5.8pp |
| 2022 | 25 | 19 | #1749 | 2.0% | 19.9% | 17.8% | 5.1% | +0.4pp |
| 2023 | 23 | 7 | #2027 | 4.9% | 20.4% | 19.7% | 3.4% | -15.8pp |
| 2024 | 32 | 36 | #1411 | 7.5% | 26.5% | 23.4% | 8.8% | +5.5pp |
| 2025 | 44 | 58 | #942 | 11.2% | 30.1% | 7.8% | 5.2% | +16.5pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 16.5% | 7.1% | -9.4pp |
| Male | 14.2% | 6.6% | -7.6pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 14.1% | 6.0% | -8.1pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 23.1% | 11.1% | -12.0pp |
| English Learners | 12.5% | 3.7% | -8.8pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 14.5% | 7.1% | -7.4pp |
| All Students | 15.3% | 6.8% | -8.5pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 9.1% | — |
| Homeless | — | 15.0% | — |
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