Ethan A Chase Middle: No single number tells this school's story. Here's the honest picture.
Ethan A Chase posts 27% meeting the standard and 7.7% exceeding it, against 39% and 16.8% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 31 | 8% | 27% | -2.5 | 26.1% | 5.6% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Ethan A Chase Middle scores 31 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 26th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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🌱 Building Momentum — 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.
Most rating sites would stop at “27% proficient” and call it done. Ethan A Chase deserves a closer read. The school sits in Menifee, where two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 26th percentile since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 27% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 34% | 30% | 32% | 34% | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 37% | 39% | 32% | 34% | 40% |
| Grade 8 | 39% | 32% | 37% | 33% | 34% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 24% | 18% | 16% | 21% | 19% |
| Grade 7 | 22% | 21% | 13% | 17% | 18% |
| Grade 8 | 24% | 14% | 15% | 16% | 16% |
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 falls 3.6pp across grades; the floor slips 1.8pp. 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 what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- 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 Ethan A Chase Middle in Menifee, 30.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 35.1% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Ethan A Chase Middle trails its district average for low-income students by 4.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (13.6% Math proficient); Hispanic students (30.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 33.9 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 1,058 students tested.
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 0.1pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +0.1pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Feeder patterns derived from NCES attendance boundary data. Boundaries are approximate and may have changed — verify with your school district for current assignments.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$827 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.
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
At 1,447 students, this school is well above the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 13% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Middle Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 33
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 52
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
A low score doesn't tell the whole story. Read: Your School Scored Low — Here's What That Actually Means
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 459 | 10% | 25% | 27% | 37% | 35% | −11 |
| Grade 7 | 451 | 12% | 28% | 26% | 35% | 40% | −8 |
| Grade 8 | 483 | 7% | 27% | 29% | 37% | 34% | −13 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 452 | 6% | 13% | 30% | 50% | 19% | −16 |
| Grade 7 | 449 | 4% | 14% | 29% | 53% | 18% | −16 |
| Grade 8 | 476 | 7% | 9% | 20% | 64% | 16% | −16 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 484 | 3% | 10% | 64% | 23% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 1,058 | 30.6% | −5 | −8 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 1,018 | 30.6% | −5 | −8 |
| Two or More Races | 222 | 50.9% | +3 | −11 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethan A Chase Middle ← | — | 31 | 7.7% | 27.0% | −2.5 | 5.6% |
| Bell Mountain Middle | 2.9 mi | 34 | 12.3% | 37.6% | −11.0 | 4.8% |
| Hans Christensen Middle | 2.2 mi | 33 | 10.9% | 34.7% | −3.0 | 10.3% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 33 | 34 | #1322 | 8.5% | 29.7% | 11.0% | 5.0% | +2.7pp |
| 2022 | 26 | 22 | #1697 | 6.2% | 25.6% | 35.7% | 8.4% | -1.0pp |
| 2023 | 32 | 26 | #1623 | 6.7% | 24.1% | 33.8% | 13.8% | +2.0pp |
| 2024 | 28 | 26 | #1631 | 7.2% | 25.6% | 24.0% | 7.0% | -3.2pp |
| 2025 | 31 | 26 | #1650 | 7.7% | 27.0% | 26.1% | 5.6% | -2.5pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 10.9% | 26.2% | +15.3pp |
| Male | 11.1% | 26.1% | +15.0pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 3.0% | +3.0pp |
| Black/African American | 7.8% | 23.9% | +16.1pp |
| White | 11.1% | 9.1% | -2.0pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 11.5% | 28.2% | +16.7pp |
| Two or More Races | 0.0% | 28.3% | +28.3pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 13.3% | 28.4% | +15.1pp |
| English Learners | 14.1% | 26.8% | +12.7pp |
| Foster Youth | 5.9% | — | — |
| Homeless | 12.9% | 43.2% | +30.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 12.6% | 29.4% | +16.8pp |
| All Students | 11.0% | 26.2% | +15.2pp |
| Filipino | — | 21.4% | — |
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