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Elk Hills Elementary

Tupman, CA · Grades TK-8 · 159 students · Elk Hills Elementary

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24% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 25% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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DistrictElk Hills Elementary
PrincipalTiffany Touchstone
GradesTK-8
Enrollment159 students

Math

25%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

24%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

159

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

14%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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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: 27%2022: 24%2023: 33%2024: 32%2025: 25%2019: 22%2022: 20%2023: 28%2024: 38%2025: 24%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 27%2022: 24%2023: 33%2024: 32%2025: 25%2019: 22%2022: 20%2023: 28%2024: 38%2025: 24%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201927%22%
202224%20%
202333%28%
202432%38%
202525%24%

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

Climbed from the 9th to the 40th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 1600 elementary schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “25% proficient” and call it done. Elk Hills deserves a closer read. Two-thirds of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

109 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Elk Hills Elementary scores 32 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 40th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 25% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 9th percentile · Scope Score 19 of 1002022 · 29th percentile · Scope Score 24 of 1002023 · 37th percentile · Scope Score 27 of 1002024 · 40th percentile · Scope Score 33 of 1002025 · 40th percentile · Scope Score 32 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased)MathOrange(Maintained)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 332%8%20%33%14%
Grade 424%15%13%21%39%
Grade 513%32%38%42%30%
Grade 627%15%26%37%56%
Grade 742%31%22%28%35%
Grade 842%15%40%33%32%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 350%25%25%33%31%
Grade 418%35%25%29%17%
Grade 54%23%44%32%22%
Grade 69%0%16%37%44%
Grade 725%25%6%16%35%
Grade 819%8%13%17%26%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in four of students here meet the standard. One in ten clear it by a lot.

ELA35% met or exceeded
Exceeded 16%Met 19%Nearly Met 18%Not Met 47%
Math29% met or exceeded
Exceeded 15%Met 14%Nearly Met 30%Not Met 42%
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+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school3211%25%—13.5%0.4%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3239
% Exceeded11%21%
% Met+25%43%
Growth——
Absence13.5%17.9%
Suspension0.4%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 31st percentile in reading against the 76th in math, among elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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 about at the middle of California elementary schools in reading, and the 76th 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 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 31st percentile of 7,519 reported schools.31st pctile · −4 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +10 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 76th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.76th pctile · +10 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 behind the same group statewide.

At Elk Hills Elementary in Tupman, 35.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 35.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Elk Hills Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (22.2% Math proficient); White students (34.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 10.9 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 54 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 32% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 32%, district —, state 43%32%
WhiteWhite: this school 32%, district 32%, state 56%32% · +0 vs school
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 29%, district 29%, state 32%29% · −3 vs school
MaleMale: this school 35%, district 35%, state 42%35% · +3 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 32%, district 32%, state 44%32% · +0 vs school

5 of 10 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

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.

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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 Only79 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −7 scale-score points versus expectation, against +3 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 79 students.−7 pts · −10 vs typical
White66 studentsWhite, reading: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 66 students.−8 pts · −13 vs typical
Low-income students57 studentsLow-income students, reading: −5 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 57 students.−5 pts · −5 vs typical
Math
English Only79 studentsEnglish Only, math: +12 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 79 students.+12 pts · +11 vs typical
White66 studentsWhite, math: +14 scale-score points versus expectation, against +5 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 66 students.+14 pts · +9 vs typical
Low-income students57 studentsLow-income students, math: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −1 for the same group at a typical California elementary school, 57 students.+7 pts · +8 vs typical
this school typical California elementary school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 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 18 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher18 · district 18
Teaching staff9 teachers
Avg. experience2.1 years
Fully credentialed78%
First-year teachers56%
PrincipalTiffany Touchstone
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Teacher salary schedule$53,240 – $87,665
Superintendent salary$100,000

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.

Grades 4–6 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of TK/K students (21.2% vs 5.9%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 13.5%, district 13.5%, state 17.9%13.5% · −4.3pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.4%, district —, state 1.6%0.4% · −1.3pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–621.2%
Grades 7–810.0%
TK/K5.9%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $15,062 per student, about the same as the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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.

$1,119 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $15,062, CA average $14,491$15,062 · spent at this school
Federal share$1,119 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,735 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 57%Instruction support 12%Student services 8%Administration 10%Buildings & maintenance 14%

District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.

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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$13,497 per pupil
2019$11,260 per pupil
2018$10,791 per pupil
2017$10,620 per pupil
2016$10,968 per pupil
The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 159 students, this school is much smaller than 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), 33% 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 Latino20.8% · district 20.8% · CA 56.1%
White73.0% · district 73.0% · CA 19.9%
Black3.1% · district 3.1% · CA 4.8%
Other3.1% · district 3.1% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch73.0% · CA 64%
Bachelor's degree+10% · CA 35%
ZIP population157
Median age36 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

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2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Is Elk Hills Elementary a good elementary school?
Elk Hills Elementary has a Scope Score of 32 out of 100, placing it in the 40th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #3,410 statewide. 11.1% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 10.3 percentage points below 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 Elk Hills Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 25.5% of students at Elk Hills Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 11.1% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 14.4% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 11.1% 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. 109 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Elk Hills Elementary rank in California?
Elk Hills Elementary ranks #3,410 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 40th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), 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.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Elk Hills Elementary?
13.5% of students at Elk Hills 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 0.4%, 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 Elk Hills Elementary compare to other schools in Tupman?
Elk Hills Elementary scores 32/100 (40th 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 159 students. Use the schools in Tupman page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Elk Hills Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Elk Hills Elementary in Tupman, 35.2% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 35.2% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Elk Hills Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 0.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (22.2% Math proficient); White students (34.4% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 10.9 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 54 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.

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How the Scope Score is calculated

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What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard11.1%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded25.5%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism13.5%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.4%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+3.6pp-2.9pp—

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

Elk Hills Elementary: reading the evidence

Elk Hills posts 25% meeting the standard and 11.1% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.4% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

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

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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.

Elk Hills Elementary is ranked #3,410 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard11.1%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded25.5%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism13.5%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.4%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+3.6pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 40 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 37 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 57 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 1.9pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 61 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · → no change vs 2024
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↑ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3147%7%29%57%14%−29
Grade 41811%28%11%50%39%−6
Grade 52317%13%4%65%30%−17
Grade 61822%33%22%22%56%+9
Grade 71718%18%24%41%35%−12
Grade 81916%16%26%42%32%−15
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3138%23%15%54%31%−15
Grade 4186%11%44%39%17%−25
Grade 52317%4%35%43%22%−13
Grade 61822%22%28%28%44%+10
Grade 71724%12%18%47%35%+2
Grade 81911%16%32%42%26%−6

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
Schoolwide4210%24%55%12%

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 Disadvantaged5435.2%+0−3
White6134.4%+0−27
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
Elk Hills Elementary ←—3211.1%25.5%+3.6pp—0.4%
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
2019199#50174.5%23.3%13.2%3.0%-32.5pp
20222429#40586.4%23.0%19.5%1.6%+10.6pp
20232737#361611.3%27.3%29.6%1.2%+18.1pp
20243340#343812.0%31.7%11.7%0.3%+3.5pp
20253240#341011.1%25.5%13.5%0.4%+3.6pp
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
What we can't show
  • — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female15.2%8.9%-6.3pp
Male12.4%15.2%+2.8pp
Hispanic/Latino16.7%14.6%-2.1pp
White12.2%11.7%-0.5pp
Students with Disabilities12.5%19.0%+6.5pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged14.8%15.8%+1.0pp
All Students13.8%12.3%-1.5pp
English Learners—6.7%—
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−487Average+1087Accelerated
English Only−779not categorised+1279not categorised
White−866Moderate+1466Accelerated
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−557Average+757Accelerated
Hispanic or Latino+716Accelerated+1016Accelerated
Students with Disabilities−1113Moderate+1513Accelerated

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 2026-09-27

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