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Esparto Middle

Esparto, CA · Grades 6-8 · 241 students · Esparto Unified

Scores climb 20.5 points from grade 6 to grade 8. But suspensions run 2× the state rate.

45% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 20% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

SchoolScope archetype

On the Rise

What this means for your family

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.

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Math

20%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

45%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

241

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

12%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

What are you trying to decide?

The overall score is a starting point.

Look at subject results, trends and student groups, then consider the opportunities your child would use.

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · 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: 12%2022: 10%2023: 9%2024: 7%2025: 20%2019: 28%2022: 27%2023: 28%2024: 27%2025: 45%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 12%2022: 10%2023: 9%2024: 7%2025: 20%2019: 28%2022: 27%2023: 28%2024: 27%2025: 45%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201912%28%
202210%27%
20239%28%
20247%27%
202520%45%

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 46th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 600 middle schools.

Most rating sites would stop at “30% proficient” and call it done. Esparto deserves a closer read. Four in five of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

The headline number: +20.5pp separates this year's grade 6 from its grade 8. The state average rises 0.1pp over the same span. Following the school's returning cohort from 2023 G6 → 2025 G8 points the same way.

234 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · cohort of 71 tracked

Esparto Middle scores 35 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 46th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

The pandemic drop is behind this school: 30% of students meet the standard today, above the 20% who did in 2019.

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 9th percentile · Scope Score 18 of 1002022 · 18th percentile · Scope Score 19 of 1002023 · 13th percentile · Scope Score 17 of 1002024 · 25th percentile · Scope Score 26 of 1002025 · 46th percentile · Scope Score 35 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathYellow(Increased Significantly)
ShowHide the by-grade tables, year by year
ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 624%22%26%22%27%
Grade 731%24%31%44%38%
Grade 832%31%30%32%62%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 611%7%6%8%18%
Grade 79%14%8%15%12%
Grade 814%13%12%5%23%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in four of students here meet the standard. 7% clear it by a lot.

ELA42% met or exceeded
Exceeded 9%Met 33%Nearly Met 27%Not Met 30%
Math18% met or exceeded
Exceeded 5%Met 13%Nearly Met 26%Not Met 57%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)AbsenceSuspension
This school357%30%Strong · p9211.7%7.5%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%Average · p5018.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3539
% Exceeded7%17%
% Met+30%40%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Strong · p92Average · p50
Absence11.7%18.1%
Suspension7.5%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 96th percentile in reading against the 60th in math, among middle schools.

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 — and its two subjects part company here. It puts this school around the 96th percentile of California middle schools in reading and the 60th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 92nd. A gap that size between reading and math in one building is worth asking about directly — one year of data can't tell you whether it is the teaching, the cohort, or noise.

— 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.

The returning cohort, two years on
ELA · 2023 · Grade 6
4%
exceeded standard · 26% met or exceeded
ELA · 2025 · Grade 8
13%
exceeded standard · 62% met or exceeded

Percent exceeded, ELA only. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different metric — mean scale-score change across ELA and Math; California's own matched-student model is below.

Both measures, each ranked in its own field
Our growth measurereturning cohort, G6→G8SchoolScope growth measure: 92nd percentile among California middle schools.92nd pctile
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +21 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 96th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.96th pctile · +21 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +4 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 60th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.60th pctile · +4 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 about even with the same group statewide.

At Esparto Middle in Esparto, 38.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 28.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Esparto Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 9.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (14.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (37.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 33.2 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 192 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 30% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 30%, district —, state 40%30%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 26%, district 20%, state 32%26% · −4 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 26%, district 20%, state 32%26% · −4 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 27%, district 22%, state 44%27% · −3 vs school
MaleMale: this school 33%, district 25%, state 42%33% · +3 vs school
English LearnersEnglish Learners: this school 6%, district 5%, state 11%6% · −24 vs school
WhiteWhite: this school 50%, district 34%, state 56%50% · +20 vs school
Students with DisabilitiesStudents with Disabilities: this school 4%, district 5%, state 15%4% · −26 vs school

9 of 17 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.

Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 27.3pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +27.3pp.

ShowHide California's growth model by student group
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
Low-income students163 studentsLow-income students, reading: +20 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 163 students.+20 pts · +23 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students149 studentsHispanic or Latino students, reading: +20 scale-score points versus expectation, against −2 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 149 students.+20 pts · +22 vs typical
English Only95 studentsEnglish Only, reading: +20 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 95 students.+20 pts · +20 vs typical
English Learner64 studentsEnglish Learner, reading: +11 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 64 students.+11 pts · +16 vs typical
English learners only43 studentsEnglish learners only, reading: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −15 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 43 students.+2 pts · +17 vs typical
Math
Low-income students164 studentsLow-income students, math: +2 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 164 students.+2 pts · +7 vs typical
Hispanic or Latino students150 studentsHispanic or Latino students, math: +1 scale-score points versus expectation, against −6 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 150 students.+1 pts · +7 vs typical
English Only96 studentsEnglish Only, math: +5 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 96 students.+5 pts · +8 vs typical
English Learner64 studentsEnglish Learner, math: −1 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 64 students.−1 pts · +2 vs typical
English learners only43 studentsEnglish learners only, math: −8 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 43 students.−8 pts · −3 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 3 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 24 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher24 · district 22
Teaching staff15 teachers
Avg. experience12.3 years
Fully credentialed98%
First-year teachers7%
PrincipalAman Kullar
ShowHide what the district pays
Teacher salary schedule$55,728 – $109,773
Principal salary$131,032 – $145,436
Superintendent salary$224,322

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.

Ask on a visit

Ask about the discipline philosophy and what a typical suspension is for. Numbers can't tell you whether a campus feels strict or chaotic — a visit can.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 11.7%, district 18.9%, state 18.1%11.7% · −6.4pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 7.5%, district —, state 3.6%7.5% · +3.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–69.6%
Grades 7–812.1%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $22,620 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$834 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: $22,620, CA average $14,491$22,620 · spent at this school
Federal share$834 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$21,458 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 55%Instruction support 15%Student services 9%Administration 11%Buildings & maintenance 11%

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$15,325 per pupil
2019$13,593 per pupil
2018$14,026 per pupil
2017$12,223 per pupil
2016$12,251 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Four 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 241 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

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 Latino74.7% · district 76.3% · CA 56.1%
White15.8% · district 16.8% · CA 19.9%
Asian1.2% · district 0.5% · CA 10.2%
Black2.1% · district 1.9% · CA 4.8%
Other6.2% · district 4.4% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch80.9% · CA 64%
Median income$102K · CA $85K
Median home value$458K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+19% · CA 35%
ZIP population3,999
Median age36 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?

Ask a current family: “When your child needs help, how does the school respond?”

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

SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Esparto MiddlePublicDeveloping7%30%School being viewed
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Moving & enrollment

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Schools across the K–12 journey

Esparto HighScope 47direct feeder

The road from this school ends at Esparto 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 Esparto High around 2031, and 6 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 48% of Esparto High's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

5 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 5 AP subjects taught → full record on Esparto 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.

Plan your next step

What should I do next?

Worth a school visit

  • Ask what typically leads to a suspension, and what happens before it gets there.
  • Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
  • 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 Esparto Middle a good middle school?
Esparto Middle has a Scope Score of 35 out of 100, placing it in the 46th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #1,179 statewide. 7.2% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 10.0 percentage points below the California average of 17.2%. 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 Esparto Middle's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 29.9% of students at Esparto Middle met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 7.2% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 22.7% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 7.2% 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. 473 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Esparto Middle rank in California?
Esparto Middle ranks #1,179 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 46th 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 Esparto 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 Esparto Middle that cohort is 2023 G6 → 2025 G8, measured in SBAC scale-score points. Its gain ranks strong among California middle schools — roughly the 92nd 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 Esparto Middle?
11.7% of students at Esparto Middle are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), which is better than the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 7.5%. 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 Esparto Middle compare to other schools in Esparto?
Esparto Middle scores 35/100 (46th 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 241 students. Use the schools in Esparto page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Esparto Middle serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Esparto Middle in Esparto, 38.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 28.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Esparto Middle outperforms its district average for low-income students by 9.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (14.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (37.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 33.2 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 192 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.
What high school does Esparto Middle feed into?
By attendance boundary, Esparto Middle is zoned to Esparto High. Esparto High has a Scope Score of 47 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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Behind the evidence

Inspect the full record

Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

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

Growth carries this score — its returning cohort's growth from grade 6 to grade 8. The test levels sit just under the state's.

The school's returning cohort — mostly, not exactly, the same kids two years on — gained 61 scale-score points across the span. Almost every school gains points, so we rank the gain against every other California school in this level.

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard7.2%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded29.9%40.0%23%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Strongaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism11.7%18.1%5%
Suspension rate7.5%3.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)18.8%18.0%5%

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

Esparto Middle: reading the evidence

Esparto has real strengths and one number that complicates them. Most rating sites show you one or the other. Both belong on the same page.

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

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.

Explore the underlying data →
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.

Esparto Middle is ranked #1,179 statewide.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard7.2%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded29.9%40.0%23%
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)Strongaverage20%
Chronic absenteeism11.7%18.1%5%
Suspension rate7.5%3.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)18.8%18.0%5%
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 17.2% · index 39 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 40.0% · index 42 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Growth (2023 G6 → 2025 G8)
↑ vs CA average · 92nd pctile
Chronic absenteeism
↑ vs CA 18.1% · index 59 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 0.2pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↓ vs CA 3.6% · index 34 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▲ 0.7pp higher vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↑ vs CA 18.0% · index 47 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 6786%21%36%37%27%−19
Grade 7779%29%25%38%38%−10
Grade 87913%49%22%16%62%+16
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 6805%13%26%56%18%−17
Grade 7781%10%31%58%12%−22
Grade 8819%15%20%57%23%−9

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
Schoolwide815%33%48%14%

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 Disadvantaged19238.0%+10−0
Hispanic/Latino17737.9%+9−1
English Learners657.7%+2−3
03Nearest middle 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
Esparto Middle ←—357.2%29.9%+20.5pp+61 pts7.5%
California average—3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp—3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
2019189#17872.7%20.0%9.3%7.8%+5.4pp
20221918#17425.0%18.5%24.4%8.4%+7.2pp
20231713#18584.1%18.8%23.5%12.2%+5.5pp
20242625#16153.7%21.1%11.9%6.8%+3.5pp
20253546#11797.2%29.9%11.7%7.5%+20.5pp
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
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female13.3%15.6%+2.3pp
Male5.4%6.2%+0.8pp
Hispanic/Latino7.4%9.2%+1.8pp
White17.1%22.5%+5.4pp
Students with Disabilities14.3%16.7%+2.4pp
English Learners8.0%6.3%-1.7pp
Homeless15.0%——
Military-Connected9.1%8.6%-0.5pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged8.8%11.3%+2.5pp
All Students9.1%11.3%+2.2pp
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+21203Exceptional+4204Average
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+20163Exceptional+2164Average
Hispanic or Latino+20149Exceptional+1150Average
English Only+2095not categorised+596not categorised
English Learner+1164Accelerated−164Average
English Learners Only+243not categorised−843not categorised
White+1934Accelerated+934Accelerated
Students with Disabilities+627Accelerated+1027Accelerated
Long-Term English Learner (grades 6-8 only)+1126Accelerated+226Average
Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only+3321not categorised+921not categorised

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. 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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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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