Elk Grove Charter: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Elk Grove Charter posts 27% meeting the standard and 6.3% exceeding it, against 43% and 19.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 39 | 6% | 27% | 91.5% | 10.0% | 28.2% | 2.6% |
| CA average · High School | 54 | 20% | 43% | 92.5% | 43.0% | 23.1% | 3.3% |
Elk Grove Charter scores 39 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 32nd percentile of 1,647 California high 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 “27% proficient” and call it done. Elk Grove Charter deserves a closer read. The school sits in Elk Grove, where more than half of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
As a charter, Elk Grove Charter enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 32nd percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 27% of students meet the standard today, above the 22% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | — | 53% | 25% | 54% | 42% |
| Grade 8 | 31% | 36% | 24% | 43% | 52% |
| Grade 11 | 38% | 57% | 45% | 43% | 39% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | — | 26% | 9% | 30% | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 24% | 19% | 22% | 13% | 21% |
| Grade 11 | 6% | 26% | 10% | 17% | 15% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 27 are proficient by 11th grade → 92 graduate → 10 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
The 6 things our score weighs
California's own answer to the same question
California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits a little below the middle of California high schools in reading, and the 21st in math. We show it; we don't score it.
— 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 high school lands at −3 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −13 and +5 — 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.
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask what share of students complete the full college-prep course sequence, and who gets steered into it.
- 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 Elk Grove Charter in Elk Grove, 35.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Elk Grove Charter trails its district average for low-income students by 10.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (13.8% Math proficient); Hispanic students (37.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 6.5 percentage points for white students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 80 students tested.
7 of 14 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 7–8 students (30.8% vs 13.4%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
Elk Grove Charter's teachers are authorized to teach 5 of the 40 AP subjects the College Board offers — including Environmental Science, Art History, and U.S. Government and Politics.
Data source: College Board AP Course Audit, 2025 - 2026 audit year (authorization, not enrollment) · IB World Schools directory, name-matched · structural depth: 2020-21 federal snapshot, table 09
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$1 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 262 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 22% 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.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 60
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 61
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 26 | 8% | 35% | 38% | 19% | 42% | −5 |
| Grade 8 | 33 | 15% | 36% | 18% | 30% | 52% | +5 |
| Grade 11 | 79 | 13% | 27% | 39% | 22% | 39% | −9 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 25 | 8% | 28% | 28% | 36% | 36% | +2 |
| Grade 8 | 33 | 15% | 6% | 24% | 55% | 21% | −11 |
| Grade 11 | 79 | 0% | 15% | 28% | 57% | 15% | −9 |
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 | 117 | 3% | 20% | 64% | 14% |
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 | 80 | 35.0% | −10 | −3 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 43 | 37.2% | −6 | −2 |
| White | 24 | 37.5% | −25 | −24 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elk Grove Charter ← | — | 39 | 6.3% | 27.2% | — | — | 2.6% |
| Cosumnes Oaks High | 2.2 mi | 63 | 26.4% | 54.1% | — | — | 3.8% |
| Franklin High | 0.5 mi | 63 | 25.1% | 53.0% | — | — | 3.8% |
| Laguna Creek High | 2.6 mi | 54 | 18.8% | 41.1% | — | — | 4.7% |
| California average | — | 54 | 19.8% | 43.2% | — | — | 3.3% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 39 | 34 | #1354 | 5.7% | 21.9% | 15.8% | 2.7% | — |
| 2022 | 48 | 52 | #1017 | 13.8% | 41.6% | 7.7% | 1.3% | — |
| 2023 | 41 | 36 | #1371 | 5.5% | 27.8% | 5.7% | 3.6% | — |
| 2024 | 40 | 35 | #1401 | 5.6% | 30.0% | 23.9% | 2.6% | — |
| 2025 | 39 | 32 | #1473 | 6.3% | 27.2% | 28.2% | 2.6% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14.4% | 31.3% | +16.9pp |
| Male | 14.1% | 24.5% | +10.4pp |
| Asian | 14.3% | 30.0% | +15.7pp |
| Black/African American | 10.0% | 22.2% | +12.2pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 14.4% | 26.5% | +12.1pp |
| Two or More Races | 11.9% | 28.6% | +16.7pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 14.3% | 32.6% | +18.3pp |
| English Learners | 11.8% | 33.3% | +21.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 11.8% | 34.6% | +22.8pp |
| All Students | 14.2% | 27.5% | +13.3pp |
| Subject | Taught by |
|---|---|
| Art History | this school |
| Environmental Science | this school |
| U.S. Government and Politics | this school |
| United States History | this school |
| World History: Modern | this school |
Authorization ≠ a section running this year — the Ledger records what the school may teach, not seat counts.
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| AP offered | not offered |
| AP course count | not reported |
| AP enrollment | not reported |
| IB participation | not offered |
| Dual enrollment | not offered |
| Algebra I in grade 8 | offered · 1 enrolled |
| Calculus sections | 0 |
| Physics sections | 3 |
| Chemistry sections | 0 |
| Total enrollment (CRDC) | 240 |
Shown, never scored — no entry to any composite. NULL/reserve codes render "not reported," never a fabricated zero. The equity block above this table (§4) is the per-subgroup view of this same collection.
| Destination | Completers | % (derived) |
|---|---|---|
| University of California | 1 | 1.1% |
| California State University | 4 | 4.6% |
| California community college | 38 | 43.7% |
| In-state private | 2 | 2.3% |
| Out-of-state, 4-year | 3 | 3.5% |
| Out-of-state, 2-year | 1 | 1.1% |
| Not enrolled | 38 | 43.7% |
87 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 56% · % column is computed by SchoolScope (count ÷ completers), not a CDE-native rate · a missing cell is CDE suppression, never a fabricated zero · source: CDE 12-mo CGR, 2023 cohort (the newest published), National Student Clearinghouse match — a different, older vintage than the fall 2025 UC admissions rows in tables 06-07 above.
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | −1 | 40 | Average | −10 | 40 | Moderate |
| English Only | −2 | 29 | not categorised | −12 | 29 | not categorised |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | −14 | 23 | Moderate | −21 | 23 | Minimal |
| Hispanic or Latino | −16 | 17 | Moderate | −36 | 17 | Minimal |
| Students with Disabilities | −15 | 12 | Moderate | +1 | 12 | Average |
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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