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Emilie J. Ross Middle: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.

Emilie J. Ross posts 40% meeting the standard against 39% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.

7448 Fox Road, 95326 (opens in new tab)·Hughson Unified·Hughson·Grades 6-8·458 students·61% low-income·2024–25 CAASPP·(209) 883-4425·Website
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
This schoolCA avg
Scope4038
% Exceeded13%17%
% Met+40%39%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Strong · p86Average · p50
Absence16.1%18.5%
Suspension7.1%3.7%
Scope Score
40
📈 On the Rise · Developing
ranked #913 statewide

Emilie J. Ross Middle scores 40 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 59th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →

📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.

CDE CAASPP 2025

Most rating sites would stop at “40% proficient” and call it done. Emilie J. Ross deserves a closer read. The school sits in Hughson, where three in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

The seven-year arc

Percentile among 2,238 middle schools statewide

Climbed from the 41st to the 59th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 300 middle schools.

CA Dashboard
ELAYellow(Increased)MathYellow(Increased Significantly)

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 40% of students meet the standard today, above the 35% who did in 2019.

ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 647%33%31%38%37%
Grade 746%35%45%45%49%
Grade 843%34%34%48%48%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 624%16%17%24%34%
Grade 725%18%30%30%43%
Grade 829%8%18%26%33%

The story this school is actually telling

The school, grade by grade

ELA · CAASPP 2024–25

Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.

11%
26%
63%
Grade 6 · 37% proficient
15%
34%
51%
Grade 7 · 49% proficient
8%
39%
53%
Grade 8 · 47% proficient

The honest read: the share exceeding falls 2.3pp across grades; the floor rises 11.0pp. The state average rises 0.1pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.

The 6 things our score weighs

Exceeded standard
12.8%
State 16.8%
4.0pp below state avg
Met or exceeded
40.5%
State 39.3%
1.2pp above state avg
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
Strong
State average
The same students gained 57 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.
Chronic absenteeism
16.1%
State 18.5%
2.4pp below state avg
Suspension rate
7.1%
State 3.7%
3.4pp above state avg
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
25.8%
State 18.0%
7.8pp above state avg

California's own answer to the same question

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. The two measures land in the same neighbourhood here — ours puts this school around the 86th percentile of California middle schools, the state's around the 73rd in reading and math together. Two different methods agreeing is the most you can ask of one year of test data.

Both measures, ranked against every California school
Our growth measuresame cohort, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 86th percentile among California middle schools.86th pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +5 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 64th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.64th pctile · +5 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +13 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 82nd percentile of 7,518 reported schools.82nd pctile · +13 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

— 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 middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — 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.

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 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 Emilie J. Ross Middle in Hughson, 36.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 38.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Emilie J. Ross Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 2.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (27.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (39.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 44.5 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 285 students tested.

All students at this school: 40% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 40%, district —, state 39%40%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 32%, district 33%, state 32%32% · −8 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 35%, district 35%, state 32%35% · −5 vs school
MaleMale: this school 35%, district 37%, state 42%35% · −5 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 46%, district 43%, state 44%46% · +5 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 47%, district 47%, state 56%47% · +6 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 5%, district 12%, state 11%5% · −35 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 2%, district 9%, state 15%2% · −39 vs school

7 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
Subgroup growth by grade

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 12.2pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +12.5pp.

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 middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only292 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 292 students.+6 pts · +6 vs typical
Low-income students264 studentsLow-income students, reading: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 264 students.+3 pts · +6 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students235 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 235 students.+3 pts · +5 vs typical
White181 studentsWhite, reading: +4 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 181 students.+4 pts · +4 vs typical
English Learner112 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +1 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 112 students.+1 pts · +6 vs typical
Math
English Only291 studentsEnglish Only, math: +15 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 291 students.+15 pts · +18 vs typical
Low-income students263 studentsLow-income students, math: +8 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 263 students.+8 pts · +13 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students235 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +7 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 235 students.+7 pts · +13 vs typical
White180 studentsWhite, math: +18 scale-score points versus expectation, against +1 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 180 students.+18 pts · +17 vs typical
English Learner112 studentsEnglish Learner, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 112 students.+2 pts · +5 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 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.

Showing up, and staying in class

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 16.1%, district 26.8%, state 18.5%16.1% · −2.4pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 7.1%, district —, state 3.7%7.1% · +3.4pp vs state
Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–613.1%
Grades 7–817.5%

Where the path goes

The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.

K-12 Feeder Path
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Middle
Emilie J. Ross Middle
40/100
This school

Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.

Hughson HighScope 57direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Hughson High, which sent 15 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 7 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Hughson High around 2031, and 6 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 64% of Hughson High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

15 UC ENROLLEES (FALL 2025) · 7 AP SUBJECTS TAUGHT → full record on Hughson High's page
Source: UC & College Board

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Student : teacherStudent to teacher ratio: this school 23:1, district 23:123:1
Teaching staff22 teachers
Avg. experience14.1 years
Fully credentialed83%
First-year teachers5%
Intern / emergency permit3.9%
Salary Schedule
Teacher salary schedule$58,963 – $126,528
Principal salary$164,086 – $176,196
Superintendent salary$227,087

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

What gets spent here

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $19,480, CA average $14,491$19,480 · spent at this school
Federal share$1,336 per student

$1,336 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.

District current expense · FY 2024–25$18,008 per student

The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.

Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction60%
Instruction support10%
Student services9%
Administration8%
Buildings & maintenance8%
Other5%

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

district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$12,996 per pupil
2019$12,225 per pupil
2018$11,596 per pupil
2017$11,867 per pupil
2016$11,603 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score
Hispanic55.7%
District 54.1% · CA 56.1%
White41.9%
District 42.8% · CA 19.9%
Asian1.5%
District 1.2% · CA 10.2%
Black0.4%
District 0.5% · CA 4.8%
Other0.4%
District 1.4% · CA 9.0%
Low IncomeFree/reduced lunch eligible 61.1% (3pp below CA avg)
Neighborhood — American Community Survey
Median income$88K · CA $85K
Median home value$533K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+19% · CA 35%
ZIP population10,593
Median age39 years

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

Worth Knowing

At 458 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 19% 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

Is Emilie J. Ross Middle a good middle school?

Emilie J. Ross Middle has a Scope Score of 40 out of 100, placing it in the 59th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #913 statewide. 12.8% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 4.0 percentage points below the California average of 16.8%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 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 Emilie J. Ross Middle's CAASPP test scores?

On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 40.5% of students at Emilie J. Ross Middle met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 12.8% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 27.7% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 12.8% pushed past it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it reveals whether a school's curriculum challenges students beyond minimum proficiency or paces toward it. 909 student-subject combinations were assessed.

How does Emilie J. Ross Middle rank in California?

Emilie J. Ross Middle ranks #913 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 59th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), same-cohort growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8), 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 Emilie J. Ross Middle getting better or worse?

SchoolScope follows the same cohort of students across grades rather than comparing two different grades in the same year. At Emilie J. Ross Middle that cohort is 2023 G6 → 2025 G8, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks strong among California middle schools — roughly the 86th percentile, ahead of 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 middle 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 Emilie J. Ross Middle?

16.1% of students at Emilie J. Ross Middle are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.5%. The suspension rate is 7.1%. 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 Emilie J. Ross Middle compare to other schools in Hughson?

Emilie J. Ross Middle scores 40/100 (59th percentile) among California middle 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 458 students. Use the schools in Hughson page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.

How does Emilie J. Ross Middle serve low-income and underrepresented students?

At Emilie J. Ross Middle in Hughson, 36.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 38.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Emilie J. Ross Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 2.0 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (27.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (39.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 44.5 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 285 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.

Your other options

All schools in Hughson →

Private alternatives nearby

Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.

For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Exceeded standard · 42%
12.8%
↓ vs CA 16.8% · 45th pctile
Met or exceeded · 23%
40.5%
↑ vs CA 39.3% · 51th pctile
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8) · 20%
Strong
↑ vs CA average · 86th pctile
Chronic absenteeism · 5%
16.1%
↑ vs CA 18.5% · 53th pctile
▲ 1.7pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate · 5%
7.1%
↓ vs CA 3.7% · 36th pctile
▲ 3.3pp higher vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC) · 5%
25.8%
↑ vs CA 18.0% · 56th pctile
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 614911%26%28%35%37%−9
Grade 714015%34%31%21%49%+1
Grade 81658%39%28%24%48%+2
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 614911%22%26%41%34%−1
Grade 714114%29%27%30%43%+10
Grade 816517%16%28%39%33%+1

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)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide1652%18%68%13%

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 Disadvantaged28536.8%−2−1
Hispanic/Latino25639.8%−1+1
White18748.7%−4−13
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = the same students tracked across grades, in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Emilie J. Ross Middle ←—4012.8%40.5%+5.1pp+57 pts7.1%
California average—3816.8%39.3%+1.5pp—3.7%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20193141#118210.3%35.4%7.6%4.4%+0.2pp
20222328#15696.2%23.9%22.4%7.8%-3.9pp
20232539#13367.5%29.2%18.0%7.6%+2.1pp
20243959#8999.3%35.3%14.4%3.8%+6.1pp
20254059#91312.8%40.5%16.1%7.1%+5.1pp
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
Group20192025Δ
Female6.5%12.4%+5.9pp
Male8.4%19.6%+11.2pp
Filipino5.6%——
Hispanic/Latino6.8%18.6%+11.8pp
Students with Disabilities14.0%25.4%+11.4pp
English Learners4.9%26.0%+21.1pp
Military-Connected0.0%——
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged8.6%21.7%+13.1pp
All Students7.5%16.0%+8.5pp
11California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students+5427Accelerated+13426Accelerated
English Only+6292not categorised+15291not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+3264Average+8263Accelerated
Hispanic or Latino+3235Average+7235Accelerated
White+4181Average+18180Accelerated
English Learner+1112Average+2112Average
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+963not categorised+963not categorised
Students with Disabilities−2353Minimal−1553Moderate
English Learners Only−1149not categorised−849not categorised
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)−540Average−240Average

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. “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. Long-Term English Learner counts cover grades 6-8 only (CDE), so that row is not comparable to the All Students row. 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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