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Ernest Kimme Charter Academy

Vacaville, CA · Grades 9-12 · 194 students · Vacaville Unified

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10% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 0% in math. 56.6% graduate in four years. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

0%

Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

English

10%

Grade 11 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

194

Total enrollment

Graduation

56.6%

Four-year graduation rate

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grade 11 · 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: 17%2022: 4%2023: 0%2024: 4%2025: 0%2019: 58%2022: 15%2023: 27%2024: 25%2025: 10%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 17%2022: 4%2023: 0%2024: 4%2025: 0%2019: 58%2022: 15%2023: 27%2024: 25%2025: 10%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201917%58%
20224%15%
20230%27%
20244%25%
20250%10%

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 bottom percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “5% proficient” and call it done. Ernest Kimme Charter Academy deserves a closer read. Three in five of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.

As a charter, Ernest Kimme Charter Academy enrolls by application rather than address. That changes how you get in, but it doesn't change the score.

69 tested · 1 of 1 grade published

Ernest Kimme Charter Academy scores 12 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the bottom percentile of 1,647 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 5% meet the standard today, versus 38% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 1,647 high schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 3rd percentile · Scope Score 29 of 1002022 · bottom percentile · Scope Score 15 of 1002023 · bottom percentile · Scope Score 17 of 1002024 · bottom percentile · Scope Score 16 of 1002025 · bottom percentile · Scope Score 12 of 100
ELARed(Declined Significantly)MathRed(Declined Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 837%25%35%31%—
Grade 1158%15%27%25%10%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 811%0%20%7%—
Grade 1117%4%0%4%0%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

5% of students here meet the standard. 1% clear it by a lot.

ELA10% met or exceeded
Exceeded 1%Met 9%Nearly Met 28%Not Met 62%
Math0% met or exceeded
Exceeded 0%Met 0%Nearly Met 6%Not Met 94%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California high schools · average20% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Grad rateCollege readinessAbsenceSuspension
This school121%5%56.6%0.0%61.0%7.9%
CA average · High School5420%43%92.5%43.0%23.1%3.3%
This schoolCA avg
Scope1254
% Exceeded1%20%
% Met+5%43%
Grad rate56.6%92.5%
College readiness0.0%43.0%
Absence61.0%23.1%
Suspension7.9%3.3%

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 Ernest Kimme Charter Academy in Vacaville, 9.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 35.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ernest Kimme Charter Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 25.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (0.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (7.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 10.1 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 51 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 28 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 5% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 5%, district —, state 43%5%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 5%, district 28%, state 32%5% · −0 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 4%, district 28%, state 32%4% · −1 vs school
MaleMale: this school 7%, district 36%, state 42%7% · +2 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 3%, district 38%, state 44%3% · −2 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 0%, district 9%, state 15%0% · −5 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 8%, district 46%, state 56%8% · +3 vs school

7 of 14 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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No student-group growth record is available for this school in this data release.

Where graduates go

What happens after high school?

25%

Enrolled in college within a year

Class of 2023 · 28 of 112 completers · includes community colleges

112Completers
3%
Other colleges3 completers · Outside the California community college system
22%
California community colleges25 completers · Enrolled within a year
75%
Not recorded enrolled84 completers · No college enrollment in this reporting window

Destination data describes this earlier graduating class, separately from current-year test results and graduation. Percentages are rounded.

College destinations and the full graduate record
2024–25

Where graduates go

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Where the class of 2023 went
25%enrolled in college within a year
  • California community college25 (22%)
  • In-state private1 (1%)
  • Out-of-state, 4-year2 (2%)
  • Not enrolled84 (75%)

CDE 12-mo College-Going Rate, class of 2023 · % = count ÷ completers, our arithmetic

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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 19 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher19 · district 22
Teaching staff18 teachers
Avg. experience16.9 years
Fully credentialed57%
First-year teachers6%
PrincipalAmi Blackstone
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$57,948 – $112,761
Principal salary$139,655 – $159,756
Superintendent salary$260,000

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended more, than the state average.

61.0% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 23.1% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — worth asking about on a tour.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 61.0%, district 18.2%, state 23.1%61.0% · +38.0pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 7.9%, district —, state 3.3%7.9% · +4.6pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 9–1267.4%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $19,637 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$1,244 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: $19,637, CA average $14,491$19,637 · spent at this school
Federal share$1,244 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$15,748 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 60%Instruction support 11%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$12,908 per pupil
2019$11,278 per pupil
2018$11,479 per pupil
2017$10,517 per pupil
2016$9,935 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

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

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 194 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).

On the state's science test (CAST), 9% 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 Latino55.1% · district 40.9% · CA 56.1%
White24.2% · district 34.2% · CA 19.9%
Asian1.0% · district 3.2% · CA 10.2%
Black7.2% · district 5.6% · CA 4.8%
Other12.4% · district 16.0% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch63.4% · CA 64%
Median income$110K · CA $85K
Median home value$606K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+25% · CA 35%
ZIP population69,390
Median age39 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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A source-reviewed culture summary is not available for this profile yet. Ask how teaching, student support and family communication work day to day.

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Family voices

What would you want another family to know about the daily experience here?

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Educator voices

What should families understand about teaching, support and the school community?

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What are the alternatives?

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

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

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Ernest Kimme Charter AcademyCharterNeeds Support1%5%School being viewed
Buckingham Collegiate Charter AcademyCharterStrong31%62%0.8 mi
Vacaville HighPublicSolid17%43%0.8 mi
Will C. Wood HighPublicDeveloping10%32%0.8 mi
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Your other options

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

2 private schools within 10 miles
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Worth a school visit

Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.

  • Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
  • Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
  • 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 Ernest Kimme Charter Academy a good high school?
Ernest Kimme Charter Academy has a Scope Score of 12 out of 100, placing it in the bottom percentile of California high schools and ranked #1,645 statewide. 0.7% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 19.1 percentage points below the California average of 19.8%. The Scope Score weights 7 dimensions for high schools: graduation rate (25%), exceeded standard (22%), college/career readiness (20%), met or exceeded (proficient) (18%), 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 Ernest Kimme Charter Academy's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 5.1% of students at Ernest Kimme Charter Academy met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 0.7% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 4.3% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 0.7% 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. 139 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Ernest Kimme Charter Academy rank in California?
Ernest Kimme Charter Academy ranks #1,645 among California high schools by Scope Score, placing it in the bottom percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), 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 Ernest Kimme Charter Academy?
61.0% of students at Ernest Kimme Charter Academy are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 23.1%. The suspension rate is 7.9%. 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 Ernest Kimme Charter Academy compare to other schools in Vacaville?
Ernest Kimme Charter Academy scores 12/100 (bottom percentile) among California high 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 194 students. Use the schools in Vacaville page or the map view to compare all high schools nearby.
How does Ernest Kimme Charter Academy serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Ernest Kimme Charter Academy in Vacaville, 9.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 35.7% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ernest Kimme Charter Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 25.9 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (0.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (7.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 10.1 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 51 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

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 6 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Graduation rate56.6%92.5%25%
Exceeded standard0.7%19.8%22%
College readiness0.0%43.0%20%
Met or exceeded5.1%43.2%18%
Chronic absenteeism61.0%23.1%5%
Suspension rate7.9%3.3%5%

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures graduation, test performance, college readiness, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Ernest Kimme Charter Academy: reading the evidence

Ernest Kimme Charter Academy posts low test scores — and test scores are one lens among several. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

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.

Ernest Kimme Charter Academy is ranked #1,645 statewide · #4 of 4 in Vacaville Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Graduation rate56.6%92.5%25%
Exceeded standard0.7%19.8%22%
College readiness0.0%43.0%20%
Met or exceeded5.1%43.2%18%
Chronic absenteeism61.0%23.1%5%
Suspension rate7.9%3.3%5%
Graduation rate
↓ vs CA 92.5% · index 18 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 19.8% · index 34 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
College readiness
↓ vs CA 43.0% · index 31 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 43.2% · index 28 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 23.1% · index 25 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint · ▲ 3.5pp higher vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 3.3% · index 31 · 50 = CA high-school midpoint · ▲ 2.9pp higher vs 2024
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 11691%9%28%62%10%−38
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 11700%0%6%94%0%−24

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
Schoolwide800%9%74%18%

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 Disadvantaged519.8%−26−28
Hispanic/Latino417.3%−29−32
Students with Disabilities180.0%−9−17
03Nearest high schoolssorted by Scope Score
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Susp
Ernest Kimme Charter Academy ←—120.7%5.1%7.9%
Buckingham Collegiate Charter Academy0.8 mi6931.4%62.0%1.3%
Vacaville High0.8 mi5817.1%42.8%4.5%
Will C. Wood High0.8 mi5210.5%32.1%4.9%
California average—5419.8%43.2%3.3%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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Graduation Rate
56.6%
AP Exam Prepared
Not offered
This school may not offer AP courses
A-G Completion
1.6%
A-G are the 15 courses (across 7 subjects) required for UC/CSU eligibility
College-Going Rate
25.0%
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSusp
2019293#146615.9%37.7%19.6%3.2%
2022150#15961.8%9.7%48.5%5.0%
2023170#16302.6%13.5%51.5%4.6%
2024160#16383.5%14.2%57.5%5.0%
2025120#16450.7%5.1%61.0%7.9%
NO STATEWIDE TESTING 2020–21 (COVID) · SCORE AND PERCENTILE ARE RELATIVE TO EACH YEAR'S FIELD
What we can't show
  • — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 28 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female17.1%69.4%+52.3pp
Male18.5%65.6%+47.1pp
Black/African American0.0%76.2%+76.2pp
Hispanic/Latino20.8%66.7%+45.9pp
Two or More Races35.0%75.0%+40.0pp
White15.3%61.1%+45.8pp
Students with Disabilities26.7%72.9%+46.2pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged20.8%72.5%+51.7pp
All Students17.6%67.4%+49.8pp
English Learners—56.0%—
06Advanced coursework — 2020-21 federal civil-rights snapshotstructural, dated — newest published; biennial
ShowHide table 06 — Advanced coursework — 2020-21 federal civil-rights snapshot
MeasureThis school
AP offerednot offered
AP course countnot reported
AP enrollmentnot reported
IB participationnot offered
Dual enrollmentnot offered
Algebra I in grade 8not reported
Calculus sections0
Physics sections0
Chemistry sections0
Total enrollment (CRDC)317

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.

07College destinationsclass of 2023 · CDE 12-mo College-Going Rate
ShowHide table 07 — College destinations
DestinationCompleters% (derived)
University of California00.0%
California State University00.0%
California community college2522.3%
In-state private10.9%
Out-of-state, 4-year21.8%
Out-of-state, 2-year00.0%
Not enrolled8475.0%

112 completers, class of 2023 · state-reported college-going rate 25% · % 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.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=1,647 high schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · CRDC 2020-21 (biennial; next expected 2021-22) · CDE 12-mo CGR 2023 cohort, National Student Clearinghouse match · Data updated 2026-09-18

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