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Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle — Rating & test scores

8365 Whitelock Parkway, Elk Grove · 1,136 students · Grades 7–8

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The California School Campus Database records Cosumnes Oaks High on this campus too; it gives each school the whole campus, so this drawing doesn’t show which buildings each uses.

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Scope Score 88

StrongScope Score · 93rd percentile. Higher than 93 in 100 of the 2,529 California public middle schools we score.

75 is the typical California school. 100 is the best result in the state. How the score is built

Well above California in English and math: 75% and 63% scored Proficient or Advanced in grades 7 and 8, spring 2026, against 50% and 37%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 7 and 8: 1,203
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 7 and 8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 838,600 in English and 838,896 in math tested).

Overview

Is Elizabeth Pinkerton a good middle school?

Strong. Elizabeth Pinkerton is higher than most California middle schools on test results, progress in both subjects and attendance.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced9175%
Math, Proficient or Advanced9063%
English, Advanced9340%
Math, Advanced9246%

Progress in a year, 2025

English90+15 pts
Math87+16 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance6313 in 100
Elizabeth Pinkerton’s place among California middle schools, out of 100Elk Grove Unified’s other middle schoolsBar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

On spring 2025 tests, students in grades 7 and 8 scored higher than California students who had the same scores the year before, in English (+15 pts) and math (+16 pts). The state calls both results Accelerated.

Each bar is Elizabeth Pinkerton’s place among 2,529 California public middle schools we score. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, updated October 15, 2026.

How to read these bars, and their sources

A place counts the schools out of 100 with a lower figure. The dashed line is the middle. Test results are from spring 2026, grades 6–8. Progress is the state’s measure of how the same students’ scores changed against the score it expected, 2025. Attendance counts students who missed 10% or more of school days; fewer is better, so a higher place means fewer such students.

Source for the sentence
CDE growth model, 2025. Students with scores in both years in grades 7 and 8: 1,017 in English, 1,023 in math. Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

In its own words

What does Elizabeth Pinkerton say about itself?

We haven’t read Elizabeth Pinkerton’s website yet. Until we do, the school’s own site is the best place to hear it in its own words.

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Progress

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 7 and 8 scored 15 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 16 points higher, which the state calls Accelerated.

English

+15

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

Low-income449+11 points
Asian341+17 points
Hispanic or Latino211+16 points
English learners190+11 points
White139+15 points

Math

+16

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

Low-income454+10 points
Asian342+27 points
Hispanic or Latino215+5 points
English learners190+11 points
White139+15 points

Grades 7 and 8, 2025, 1,017 students in English, 1,023 in math with scores in both years. It describes results, not causes. Source: California Department of Education, growth model.

How the state’s growth measure works

The state calls this comparison an expected score. It sets one for each student from that student’s own score the year before.

California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 15 points above that expected score, and in math 16 points above it.

The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.

Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.

Nearby

How does it compare with schools nearby?

0 of the 5 middle schools nearby have a higher Scope Score than Elizabeth Pinkerton. Each school is compared with every California middle school.

Scope Score

6 middle schools within 4.0 miles, highest score first. Under each name is how the school takes students.

  1. Elizabeth PinkertonScope Score 8893rd
  2. Katherine L. AlbianiNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 8587th
  3. Toby JohnsonNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 8282nd
  4. Joseph KerrNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 8281st
  5. Edward Harris, Jr.Neighborhood school · by addressScope Score 8072nd
  6. Harriet G. EddyNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 7551st
Elk Grove Unified

Scope Score from California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 6–8. Distance is a straight line from this campus and is not an attendance boundary. See these schools on the map

Scores and family income

Further right, more students are from low-income families. Higher up, more students scored Proficient or Advanced in English.

50%75%0%25%50%75%100%

5 of 6 schools are named on the chart. Point at a dot or tap it to read any school.

English results: California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 6–8. Low-income is the share of students who qualified for free or reduced-price meals, 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes.

Schools like it

How does Elizabeth Pinkerton compare with schools like it?

Elizabeth Pinkerton’s Scope Score is 88. 335 California middle schools, counting Elizabeth Pinkerton, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 78. Elizabeth Pinkerton’s result is higher than 316 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 335

  1. Students from low-income families: 44%

    Elkhorn

    Stockton

    Scope Score 98Strong · 99th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 43%

    Scope Score 93Strong · 97th percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 48%

    Scope Score 92Strong · 97th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 39%

    Creekside Middle

    Castro Valley

    Scope Score 92Strong · 97th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 47%

    Scope Score 92Strong · 96th percentile

335 California public middle schools where 38% to 50% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, spring 2026.

How the group is chosen

The group is every California public middle school we score where 38% to 50% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. That is within 6 points of Elizabeth Pinkerton’s share. The count includes Elizabeth Pinkerton. Typical means the median: half are higher and half are lower. Schools differ in more than family income, and no score is changed for it. Our calculation from California Department of Education records: state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, and school meal eligibility, 2024–25.

Over time

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English went from 76% to 75% and math from 61% to 63%.

Share at the state’s top two test levels, 2017 to 2026

Grades 7 and 8. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202653%70%75%Elizabeth PinkertonThis school56%Elk Grove UnifiedDistrict50%CaliforniaCalifornia

Math

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202643%63%63%Elizabeth PinkertonThis school44%Elk Grove UnifiedDistrict37%CaliforniaCalifornia

The lines break where a year has no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Elk Grove Unified’s line combines its 11 middle schools we score (our calculation). Faint lines are its other schools. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Each year’s results

The top two levels were called Met or Exceeded before 2026 and are called Proficient or Advanced now. Elk Grove Unified’s figure weights each school by the students it tested.

English, grades 7 and 8: share at the top two levels
SpringElizabeth PinkertonElk Grove UnifiedCaliforniaTested here
201770%53%49%1,108
201873%55%50%1,078
201971%55%50%1,040
202272%53%48%899
202373%51%47%945
202473%52%47%1,015
202576%54%49%1,119
202675%56%50%1,203
Math, grades 7 and 8: share at the top two levels
SpringElizabeth PinkertonElk Grove UnifiedCaliforniaTested here
201763%43%37%1,102
201864%45%37%1,072
201960%44%37%1,038
202252%38%31%902
202358%38%32%942
202462%38%33%1,013
202561%42%35%1,131
202663%44%37%1,203

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

Well above California in both subjects.

English

75%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

12133540
Elk Grove Unified56%California50%

Math

63%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

19181746
Elk Grove Unified43%California37%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grades 7 and 8, spring 2026, 75% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 63% in math, against 50% and 37% across California.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grades 7 and 8 combined. From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

How does math compare with English?

In grades 7 and 8, spring 2026, math trails English by 12 percentage points in the share who scored Proficient or Advanced, against 13 points across California. The grades 7 and 8 cards above give each subject’s share.

School pattern · grades 7 and 8 · spring 2026

Broad base
Most students here scored Proficient or Advanced, the state’s top two levels. The English and math cards above give each figure.

What patterns mean

Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 7 and 8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced76%74%
Advanced41%40%
Proficient35%34%
Developing level13%13%
Minimal11%13%
Tested596607
California51%49%
Difference+25+25

California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Math

Math, grades 7 and 8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced64%63%
Advanced47%45%
Proficient17%18%
Developing level17%17%
Minimal19%20%
Tested596607
California38%36%
Difference+26+27

California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.

All four test levels, with the number of students tested
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026. The state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal.
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 7 and 8 · This school40%35%13%12%1,203
English, grades 7 and 8 · California19%31%23%27%838,600
English, grades 7 and 8 · Elk Grove Unified22%34%20%24%9,879
Math, grades 7 and 8 · This school46%17%18%19%1,203
Math, grades 7 and 8 · California21%16%23%40%838,896
Math, grades 7 and 8 · Elk Grove Unified26%17%22%35%9,875

Spring 2026, grades 7 and 8 combined: 1,203 tested in English, 1,203 tested in math. California combines the state’s results for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Who goes here

Who goes here?

Asian students are the largest group here, at 36% of students. 160 of 1,269 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

13in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (160 of 1,269 students).

At the average Elk Grove Unified middle school: 21 in 100. At the average California middle school: 18 in 100.

Suspensions: 8.7% of students were suspended at least once (112 of 1,284). Average California middle school 3.7%.

Students, 2024–25

1,136

students in grades 7–8.

Asian 36%Hispanic or Latino 19%White 13%Filipino 11%Black or African American 10%Two or more races 10%Pacific Islander 1%

Family income

44%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 499 of 1,136. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

52

teachers, with 18 years of experience on average.

2% were in their first year.

85% of teaching positions had the right credential, 2021–22.

English learners

69%

of English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026 (61 of 89 students).

Elk Grove Unified: 48%. California: 47%.

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Sources: California Department of Education and the California School Dashboard. Each tile names its year.

Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
Asian36%
Hispanic or Latino19%
White13%
Filipino11%
Black or African American10%
Two or more races10%
Pacific Islander1%
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Not reported—
Where these figures come from

Attendance and suspensions: California Department of Education, 2025–26. Student mix: the students the state’s attendance file counts, 2025–26; a dash means our records hold no count. English learner progress: California School Dashboard, 2026 . Student count: California Department of Education enrollment, 2024–25. Teachers: California Department of Education staffing files, 2024–25.

Teaching credentials: California’s School Accountability Report Card, 2024–25, measured in 2021–22: 40.5 of 47.5 full-time teaching positions. It counts positions, not individual teachers.

Student groups

How do kids like mine do here?

Five student groups here scored well above the same groups across California in English.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • Filipino132 tested92%California 74%
  • Two or more races114 tested79%California 63%
  • Asian453 tested79%California 76%
  • White149 tested78%California 62%
  • Hispanic or Latino230 tested65%California 40%
  • Low-income545 tested62%California 39%
  • Black or African American114 tested51%California 34%
  • Students with disabilities128 tested30%California 14%
  • English learners97 tested22%California 7%

Low-income, Hispanic or Latino and Black or African American students, students with disabilities and English learners all score below California’s rate for all students statewide. 62% of low-income students scored Proficient or Advanced in English (grades 7 and 8, spring 2026), against 39% for the same group across California. The chart gives each group’s figures. Every group’s math results are in the table below.

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 7 and 8 English, spring 2026. Each group is compared with the same group in the same grades. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Every group’s results, with the district

Low-income is the state’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” group.

Proficient or Advancedgrades 7 and 8 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Elk Grove Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 545 tested in English, 541 in math
English62%+1745%+2339%
Math50%+1733%+2426%
Asian · 453 tested
English79%+1564%+376%
Math74%+2054%+371%
Hispanic or Latino · 230 tested in English, 229 in math
English65%+2243%+2540%
Math51%+2229%+2625%
White · 149 tested in English, 148 in math
English78%+1563%+1662%
Math60%+753%+1050%
Filipino · 132 tested
English92%+1577%+1874%
Math77%+1463%+1760%
Black or African American · 114 tested in English, 113 in math
English51%+1635%+1734%
Math39%+1821%+1920%
Two or more races · 114 tested
English79%+1663%+1663%
Math63%+1647%+1350%
English learners · 97 tested
English22%+139%+157%
Math23%+158%+167%
Students with disabilities · 128 tested in English, 129 in math
English30%+1317%+1614%
Math16%+511%+79%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Elk Grove Unified, and across California. ■ Green: a group that is behind across California does much better here, by 10 points or more and more than twice the margin of error.

Homeless students: fewer than 30 tested here. No published rate here for American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander and military-family students and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.

Family and staff answers

What would families and staff tell you?

Families and staff can answer a short set of questions about Elizabeth Pinkerton. These are not star ratings or reviews.

  1. Staff answers show once 5 people have answered.Until then this page shows no staff answers.
  2. Family answers show once 20 families have answered.Until then this page shows how many have answered.
  3. The questions are about the school, never a person.No question asks about a named teacher or staff member.
  4. Answers are never part of the Scope Score.They sit beside the state’s records and do not change a school’s score.
  5. Staff confirm a work email.Staff answers come only from people who confirmed an email address at Elk Grove Unified.

Families

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  • Does the school tell you how your child is doing, in a way you understand, before report cards arrive?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely
  • When you contact the school with a question, do you hear back within two school days?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely · Haven’t contacted them
  • Can you get school information in the language you read best?Yes · Mostly · No
  • And 4 more questions.

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  • Would you send your own child to this school?Yes · Maybe · No
  • Do you plan to work at this school next year?Yes · Not sure · No
  • Do you have the materials and supplies you need to teach?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely
  • And 5 more questions.

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Money

Where does the money go?

$15,495 for each student in 2024–25. California’s middle schools spent $19,269 for each student. Elk Grove Unified’s plan for 2026–27 covers $825 million.

$15,495

for each student at this school, 2024–25
Spent at the school
$10,440
The school’s share of district office costs
$5,055
Of the total, from federal funds
$231
  • Elizabeth Pinkerton$15,495
  • Elk Grove Unified middle schools$16,102
  • California middle schools$19,269

The district and California figures combine their middle schools, weighted by enrollment (our calculation, 1,241 California schools). Spending does not show how well money is used. Source: California Department of Education, per-school spending report, 2024–25. Funding records ↓

Elk Grove Unified’s yearly plan

$825million

in the district’s plan for 2026–27

$128million

planned for services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth

This is the district’s plan. It is not this school’s own budget. The plan has 8 goals. The district’s page lists each one. Source: Elk Grove Unified Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), 2026–27. Read the district’s plan →

The neighborhood

What is the area around Elizabeth Pinkerton like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 95757. They are not figures for the families at Elizabeth Pinkerton.

Typical household income in a year

$138,198

Typical means half are higher and half are lower. The ZIP code is the school’s address, not its attendance area. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024, ZIP code area 95757.

Typical home value
$677,800
People who live in this ZIP code
56,764
Typical age
38.3 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
43%

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 6 questions to Elizabeth Pinkerton. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. What does the school try before a suspension, and who talks with the family?8.7% suspended at least once, 2025–26 (112 of 1,284 students); average California middle school: 3.7%
  2. How do you support kids who arrive ahead, and kids who arrive behind?
  3. Which math courses can students take, and how are placements decided?
  4. Which electives and high-school transition supports are available?

At the office

  1. What time does the day start and end, and is any day shorter?
  2. Is there care before or after school, and what does it cost?

Getting in

What comes after Elizabeth Pinkerton, and how do I get in?

Ask Elk Grove Unified which school serves your address. Next comes Cosumnes Oaks High.

In the district’s boundaries, Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle draws from 5 elementary schools. Boundaries split some neighborhoods. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level.

Elementary · fed by
Middle · this school
Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle
High · next
Cosumnes Oaks High Scope Score 80Solid · 73rd percentile · 2025

Assigned

From the district’s 2026 attendance boundaries. Shares are our estimate of where the zone’s children live. We use 2020 Census child counts, or land area where few children were counted. A share counts children living in the zone, not a school’s enrolled students. A boundary doesn’t guarantee a place. Transfers, permits, magnets and other programs can change the path. Check your child’s address and current assignment with the district. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Elementary links

  • Zehnder Ranch Elementary

    Assigned

    Scope Score 91 · Strong · 95th percentile · elementary · 2026

  • Miwok Village Elementary

    Assigned

    Scope Score 85 · Strong · 85th percentile · elementary · 2026

  • Elliott Ranch Elementary

    Assigned

    Scope Score 82 · Strong · 79th percentile · elementary · 2026

  • Elitha Donner Elementary

    Assigned for part of the zone

    Scope Score 74 · Developing · 41st percentile · elementary · 2026

    36% of the zone’s children

  • Franklin Elementary

    Assigned for part of the zone

    Scope Score 82 · Strong · 79th percentile · elementary · 2026

    21% of the zone’s children

High-school links

Links do not guarantee placement. Charter, magnet, transfer and other admission routes can differ. Each school’s percentile compares it with California schools at its own level (continuation and alternative schools only with their own kind); the stages are not one ranking.

Where the path ends: Cosumnes Oaks High
Cosumnes Oaks HighScope Score 80 · Solid · 73rd percentile · 2025district-published assignment

The road from this school ends at Cosumnes Oaks High. UC records 91 enrollees from Cosumnes Oaks High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 23 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. A child starting here today would reach Cosumnes Oaks High around 2028, and a school can change a lot in 2 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 82% of the students who finished high school at Cosumnes Oaks High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

91 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 23 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on Cosumnes Oaks High's page
Source: UC & College Board AP Course Ledger

Where it is

Where is Elizabeth Pinkerton?

Address
8365 Whitelock Parkway, Elk Grove 95757Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Kimberlee WallaceAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated August 28, 2023.

A school’s place on the map is its address in the state directory. It does not show which homes the school serves. See nearby schools on the map

Short answers to 7 common questions

How do I get in?

Ask Elk Grove Unified which school serves your address. See the details ↓

Is Elizabeth Pinkerton a good middle school?

Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle has a Scope Score of 88. It scored higher than 93 in 100 of California’s 2,529 scored public middle schools (Strong, 93rd percentile, spring 2026). See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 13 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 21 in 100 at the average Elk Grove Unified middle school. 8.7% of students (112 of 1,284) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 3.7% at the average California middle school. See the details ↓

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

Yes, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 7 and 8 scored 15 points higher in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Accelerated. In math, they scored 16 points higher, which the state calls Accelerated.

  • Included in this measure: 1,017 students in English, 1,023 in math

See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 62% of low-income students in grades 7 and 8 at Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle in Elk Grove scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 39% for the same group across California. See the details ↓

Where does it lead?

By the district’s published 2026 attendance boundaries, Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle is zoned to Cosumnes Oaks High. Boundaries change, are approximate at the edges and don’t guarantee placement, so confirm your address with the district.

  • Cosumnes Oaks High: Scope Score 80, Solid, 73rd percentile among California’s regular public and charter high schools, 2025 results

See the details ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Questions to ask, ready to copy. See the details ↓

The full record

Source records

This page is built from 12 sets of records from public data sources. Every figure keeps its source, grades, year and count.

Data updated

October 15, 2026

Record sets on this page
12
Sources
California Department of EducationU.S. Census Bureau
State test years
2017–2026

Results

Students

Money and staff

Place, downloads and method

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #170 of 2,529 California middle schools we score · #1 of 11 in Elk Grove Unified
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math43%7942%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math69%7423%
Chronically absent13 in 100575%
Suspension rate8.7% (112 of 1,284)305%
English learners: top level34%675%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California middle schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. The weights above add to 80%: the remaining 20%, for measures with no value here, is shared out among the measures above.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–268893#170California middle schools · 2,529 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.

School yearChronic absenceSuspension
2018–195 in 1007.1% (79 of 1,112)
2021–22not on filenot on file
2022–23not on filenot on file
2023–2411 in 1009.6% (106 of 1,101)
2024–2512 in 1008.5% (104 of 1,224)
2025–2613 in 1008.7% (112 of 1,284)

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English1,20340%75%
2026 · Math1,20346%63%
2025 · English1,11941%76%
2025 · Math1,13143%61%
2024 · English1,01538%73%
2024 · Math1,01343%62%
2023 · English94537%73%
2023 · Math94238%58%
2022 · English89936%72%
2022 · Math90235%52%
2019 · English1,04032%71%
2019 · Math1,03837%60%
2018 · English1,07830%73%
2018 · Math1,07240%64%
2017 · English1,10825%70%
2017 · Math1,10239%63%

Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.

Earlier years · grade and subject

Year · grade · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 7 · English56576%
2025 · Grade 8 · English55476%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math57464%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math55759%
2024 · Grade 7 · English50372%
2024 · Grade 8 · English51275%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math50259%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math51164%
2023 · Grade 7 · English48175%
2023 · Grade 8 · English46472%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math48064%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math46253%
2022 · Grade 7 · English44873%
2022 · Grade 8 · English45171%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math44952%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math45352%
2019 · Grade 7 · English52573%
2019 · Grade 8 · English51570%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math52362%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math51559%
2018 · Grade 7 · English51676%
2018 · Grade 8 · English56270%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math51263%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math56066%
2017 · Grade 7 · English55575%
2017 · Grade 8 · English55365%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math55163%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math55164%

Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.

Science (CAST)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide61323%31%37%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.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income54562%+17+23
Asian45379%+15+3
Hispanic or Latino23065%+22+25
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students+151,017Accelerated+161,023Accelerated
English-only students+16655not categorized+13661not categorized
Low-income+11449Accelerated+10454Accelerated
Asian+17341Accelerated+27342Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino+16211Accelerated+5215Accelerated
English learners+11190Accelerated+11190Accelerated
White+15139Accelerated+15139Accelerated
Recently reclassified as fluent in English+21132not categorized+14132not categorized
Two or more races+16112Accelerated+18112Accelerated
Filipino+16101Accelerated+25102Exceptional
Black or African American+899Accelerated−299Average
Students with disabilities−999Moderate−698Moderate
Long-term English learners (grades 6–8 only)+264Average+464Average
English learners only−1058not categorized+658not categorized
Homeless+1819Accelerated+218Average
Pacific Islander+1313Accelerated−1413Moderate

CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a valid growth score. SchoolScope uses that threshold for the shorter narrative view; the reported values stay visible here. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. Long-term English learner counts cover grades 6–8 only (CDE’s rule), so that row is not comparable to the All students row. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 7 and 8. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure
California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English+15 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 7 and 8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 7 and 8

1,017 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, English: +15 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's −2-point median for California middle school records.

State model · math+16 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 7 and 8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 7 and 8

1,023 students

CDE growth category: Accelerated

California growth model, math: +16 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's −3-point median for California middle school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California middle school records, the median English estimate is −2 and the middle half fall between −10 and +5 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 7 and 8, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.

Year-over-year school rates
Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 12 in 100 → 2025–26 · 13 in 100 · +1 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 8.5% (104 of 1,224) → 2025–26 · 8.7% (112 of 1,284) · +0.2 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female5 in 10013 in 100+8 in 100
Male5 in 10012 in 100+7 in 100
Asian1 in 1005 in 100+4 in 100
Black or African American8 in 10030 in 100+22 in 100
Filipino2 in 1004 in 100+2 in 100
Hispanic or Latino10 in 10022 in 100+12 in 100
Two or more races5 in 10011 in 100+6 in 100
White4 in 10014 in 100+10 in 100
Students with disabilities14 in 10025 in 100+11 in 100
English learners3 of 689 in 100—
Military families0 of 11——
Low-income9 in 10018 in 100+9 in 100
All students5 in 10013 in 100+8 in 100
Pacific Islander—2 of 15—
Homeless—6 of 24—

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Where fewer than 100 students were counted, the cell shows the count and no change is printed. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$12,179 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 63,157 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$20 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 1,136

Central federal expenditures attributed here$211 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 1,136

District current expense · FY 2024–25$18,202 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 65%Instruction support 11%Student services 11%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 7%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$701,017,85565.05%65%
Instruction support$115,484,79210.72%11%
Student services$120,268,80011.16%11%
Administration$60,643,4445.63%6%
Buildings & maintenance$80,304,8007.45%7%
Total$1,077,721,374100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $1,077,721,374 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$12,179 per pupil
2020$11,944 per pupil
2019$12,557 per pupil
2018$11,515 per pupil
2017$11,117 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 95757 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 95757 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$138,198
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43%
ZIP-area population56,764
Median age38.3 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 95757 →

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