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Encinal Elementary

Live Oak, CA · Grades TK-8 · 111 students · Live Oak Unified

Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.

63% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 54% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

54%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

63%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

111

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

8%

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 →

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0%25%50%75%100%2019: 42%2022: 27%2023: 67%2024: 44%2025: 54%2019: 38%2022: 38%2023: 54%2024: 68%2025: 63%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 42%2022: 27%2023: 67%2024: 44%2025: 54%2019: 38%2022: 38%2023: 54%2024: 68%2025: 63%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201942%38%
202227%38%
202367%54%
202444%68%
202554%63%

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

Has stayed near the 76th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “61% proficient” and call it done. Encinal deserves a closer read. More than half of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

The headline number: 8.3% chronic absenteeism — versus 17.9% statewide. Attendance is the quietest strong signal a school can post.

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

Encinal Elementary scores 50 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 76th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 61% of students meet the standard today, above the 54% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 70th percentile · Scope Score 48 of 1002022 · 67th percentile · Scope Score 42 of 1002023 · 74th percentile · Scope Score 48 of 1002024 · 77th percentile · Scope Score 51 of 1002025 · 76th percentile · Scope Score 50 of 100
ELAGreen(Declined)MathYellow(Declined)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 346%46%42%75%69%
Grade 477%54%46%62%67%
Grade 531%31%67%62%55%
Grade 654%17%38%—27%
Grade 793%62%45%62%—
Grade 883%18%69%—62%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 354%38%67%67%54%
Grade 485%62%54%77%67%
Grade 531%15%67%23%55%
Grade 638%8%15%—20%
Grade 779%54%36%38%—
Grade 850%9%54%—38%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

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

ELA58% met or exceeded
Exceeded 24%Met 34%Nearly Met 23%Not Met 19%
Math49% met or exceeded
Exceeded 20%Met 28%Nearly Met 26%Not Met 26%
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 school5027%61%—8.3%1.7%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope5039
% Exceeded27%21%
% Met+61%43%
Growth——
Absence8.3%17.9%
Suspension1.7%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 19th percentile of 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 well below the middle of California elementary schools in reading and math together. 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: −9 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 19th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.19th pctile · −9 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: −11 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 18th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.18th pctile · −11 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

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 28 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher28 · district 21
Teaching staff5 teachers
Avg. experience14.6 years
Fully credentialed100%
PrincipalMichelle Smith
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Teacher salary schedule$43,000 – $129,534
Principal salary$180,189 – $201,500
Superintendent salary$236,100

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here show up more, and get suspended more, than the state average.

Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly three times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (8.7% vs 2.6%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 8.3%, district 17.7%, state 17.9%8.3% · −9.5pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 1.7%, district —, state 1.6%1.7% · +0.1pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–62.6%
Grades 7–88.7%
TK/K5.3%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $18,931 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$142 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: $18,931, CA average $14,491$18,931 · spent at this school
Federal share$142 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$18,560 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 63%Instruction support 8%Student services 13%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 9%Other 1%

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

ShowHide the district's spending year by year
district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$13,759 per pupil
2019$13,124 per pupil
2018$12,518 per pupil
2017$11,921 per pupil
2016$11,135 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

More than half of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 111 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), 38% 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 Latino46.9% · district 59.7% · CA 56.1%
White40.5% · district 24.3% · CA 19.9%
Asian9.0% · district 11.7% · CA 10.2%
Other3.6% · district 2.6% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch52.3% · CA 64%
Median income$75K · CA $85K
Median home value$377K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+16% · CA 35%
ZIP population11,028
Median age38 years

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

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

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

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Encinal ElementaryPublicStrong27%61%School being viewed
Sutter Peak Charter AcademyCharterSolid14%38%2.9 mi
Nuestro ElementaryPublicDeveloping13%38%2.9 mi
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Nearby public schools across grade levels, plus private options within 10 miles.

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Private schools do not receive a Scope Score or statewide ranking on SchoolScope.

6 private schools within 10 miles
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School location and nearby schools do not establish attendance eligibility. Confirm boundaries and permit requirements with Live Oak Unified.

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Live Oak HighScope 51direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Live Oak High, which sent 5 graduates to UC campuses last fall and teaches 5 AP subjects. Those numbers describe past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Live Oak High around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 76% of Live Oak High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

5 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 5 AP subjects taught → full record on Live Oak High's page
Source: UC & College Board

Source: sabs_2016. Schools are grouped by grade stage. Nearby schools are not confirmed feeder links or address assignments. Verify the current path and eligibility with the district.

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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 what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
  • 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.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Encinal Elementary a good elementary school?
Encinal Elementary has a Scope Score of 50 out of 100, placing it in the 76th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #1,346 statewide. 27.2% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 5.8 percentage points above 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 Encinal Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 60.9% of students at Encinal Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 27.2% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 33.7% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 27.2% 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. 72 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Encinal Elementary rank in California?
Encinal Elementary ranks #1,346 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 76th 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 Encinal Elementary?
8.3% of students at Encinal 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 1.7%, 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 Encinal Elementary compare to other schools in Live Oak?
Encinal Elementary scores 50/100 (76th 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 111 students. Use the schools in Live Oak page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
What middle school does Encinal Elementary feed into?
By attendance boundary, Encinal Elementary is zoned to Live Oak Middle. Live Oak Middle has a Scope Score of 39 out of 100. Boundaries come from the U.S. Department of Education's School Attendance Boundary Survey, a 2015-16 collection and the most recent national one — they are approximate and may since have changed. A boundary is also not a placement guarantee: magnet, charter, open-enrollment and inter-district transfer options mean students from one school often continue to several different ones. Confirm your address with the district before making an enrollment or housing decision. Data source: NCES School Attendance Boundary Survey, analyzed by SchoolScope.

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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 standard27.2%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded60.9%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism8.3%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.7%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-7.0pp-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

Encinal Elementary: reading the evidence

Encinal posts 61% meeting the standard, and 27.2% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.

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

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.

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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.

Encinal Elementary is ranked #1,346 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard27.2%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded60.9%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism8.3%17.9%5%
Suspension rate1.7%1.6%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-7.0pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↑ vs CA 21.4% · index 55 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↑ vs CA 42.7% · index 63 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 17.9% · index 66 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 2.2pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 1.6% · index 50 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▲ 0.6pp higher 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 31338%31%8%23%69%+26
Grade 41250%17%17%17%67%+22
Grade 5119%45%27%18%55%+7
Grade 6157%20%53%20%27%−19
Grade 710——————
Grade 81315%46%23%15%62%+15
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 31323%31%31%15%54%+8
Grade 41233%33%25%8%67%+25
Grade 5119%45%9%36%55%+20
Grade 61513%7%40%40%20%−14
Grade 710——————
Grade 8138%31%23%38%38%+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
Schoolwide2413%25%46%17%

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.

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
Encinal Elementary ←—5027.2%60.9%−7.0pp—1.7%
Sutter Peak Charter Academy2.9 mi3913.9%37.8%+10.1pp—0.1%
Nuestro Elementary2.9 mi3313.2%37.9%+11.5pp—0.7%
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
20194870#165628.2%53.9%5.4%1.0%-19.2pp
20224267#187225.6%41.0%33.7%1.0%-19.2pp
20234874#146426.2%57.0%16.9%1.0%+12.5pp
20245177#129626.7%60.8%10.6%1.0%-28.5pp
20255076#134627.2%60.9%8.3%1.7%-7.0pp
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
  • — No subgroup comparison could be shown for this school this year — either its group sizes fall under CDE's 15-student reporting floor, or district/state comparison data wasn't available for its groups.
  • — 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
Female6.5%1.7%-4.8pp
Male0.0%6.9%+6.9pp
Hispanic/Latino3.3%9.1%+5.8pp
Two or More Races18.2%——
White0.0%0.0%+0.0pp
Students with Disabilities0.0%4.5%+4.5pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged4.1%7.6%+3.5pp
All Students3.3%4.3%+1.0pp
Asian—0.0%—
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−956Moderate−1156Moderate
English Only−947not categorised−1147not categorised
Hispanic or Latino−1428Moderate−1828Moderate
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−1527Moderate−1827Moderate
White−323Average−623Moderate

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 2026-09-18

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