Encinal Junior/Senior High: This school runs ahead of the state average. The bar itself is the harder conversation.
Encinal Junior/Senior posts 45% meeting the standard against 39% statewide — ahead of most, with real headroom above the bar.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 43 | 18% | 45% | -11.2 | 13.8% | 4.2% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Encinal Junior/Senior High scores 43 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 56th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “45% proficient” and call it done. Encinal Junior/Senior deserves a closer read. The school sits in Alameda, where two in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: 36.8% of English learners reached the top ELPAC level, versus 18.0% statewide.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 56th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 45% meet the standard today, versus 52% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 61% | 69% | 44% | 50% | 54% |
| Grade 7 | 60% | 74% | 69% | 52% | 56% |
| Grade 8 | 63% | 56% | 58% | 73% | 37% |
| Grade 11 | 67% | 63% | 72% | 67% | 63% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 47% | 43% | 30% | 33% | 39% |
| Grade 7 | 39% | 50% | 56% | 32% | 51% |
| Grade 8 | 42% | 20% | 42% | 48% | 34% |
| Grade 11 | 42% | 41% | 38% | 33% | 40% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding holds steady across grades; the floor slips 16.8pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
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 6 and grade 8 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.
How every group of students does here
At Encinal Junior/Senior High in Alameda, 44.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 50.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Encinal Junior/Senior High trails its district average for low-income students by 5.2 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (27.5% Math proficient); White students (62.8% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 24.7 percentage points for black students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 273 students tested.
5 of 16 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
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 falls by 13.6pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -3.6pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (15.1% vs 9.0%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Encinal Junior/Senior High serves grades 6-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
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
On the state's science test (CAST), 43% 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.
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Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 42
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 67
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 125 | 18% | 35% | 22% | 25% | 54% | +7 |
| Grade 7 | 125 | 20% | 36% | 18% | 26% | 56% | +8 |
| Grade 8 | 95 | 19% | 18% | 32% | 32% | 37% | −9 |
| Grade 11 | 208 | 33% | 30% | 20% | 17% | 63% | +16 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 127 | 13% | 26% | 30% | 31% | 39% | +4 |
| Grade 7 | 124 | 26% | 25% | 29% | 20% | 51% | +17 |
| Grade 8 | 95 | 13% | 21% | 15% | 52% | 34% | +1 |
| Grade 11 | 206 | 15% | 25% | 22% | 38% | 40% | +16 |
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 | 297 | 12% | 31% | 47% | 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.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 273 | 44.8% | −5 | +7 |
| White | 145 | 62.8% | −14 | +1 |
| Asian | 120 | 69.2% | −5 | −5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encinal Junior/Senior High ← | — | 43 | 18.2% | 45.0% | −11.2 | 4.2% |
| AIMS College Prep Middle | 2.3 mi | 51 | 19.7% | 43.6% | +17.0 | 2.9% |
| Will C. Wood Middle | 1.7 mi | 47 | 23.2% | 49.1% | −8.7 | 5.3% |
| West Oakland Middle | 2.5 mi | 27 | 2.4% | 8.0% | +5.9 | 21.3% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 41 | 57 | #868 | 19.1% | 52.1% | 13.7% | 3.6% | -1.5pp |
| 2022 | 37 | 51 | #1060 | 19.4% | 51.9% | 20.3% | 2.6% | -17.8pp |
| 2023 | 57 | 82 | #397 | 20.2% | 50.0% | 19.5% | 4.5% | +13.0pp |
| 2024 | 49 | 75 | #564 | 20.7% | 48.0% | 17.6% | 5.9% | +19.6pp |
| 2025 | 43 | 56 | #995 | 18.2% | 45.0% | 13.8% | 4.2% | -11.2pp |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 16.9% | 13.2% | -3.7pp |
| Male | 10.9% | 13.8% | +2.9pp |
| Asian | 6.1% | 9.1% | +3.0pp |
| Black/African American | 24.8% | 23.7% | -1.1pp |
| White | 10.4% | 2.6% | -7.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 18.9% | 15.7% | -3.2pp |
| Pacific Islander | 5.9% | 25.0% | +19.1pp |
| Two or More Races | 16.5% | 16.0% | -0.5pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 27.0% | 25.0% | -2.0pp |
| English Learners | 12.4% | 18.7% | +6.3pp |
| Homeless | 60.0% | 31.6% | -28.4pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 17.5% | 17.0% | -0.5pp |
| All Students | 13.7% | 13.6% | -0.1pp |
| Filipino | — | 10.7% | — |
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