Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science: High scores, healthy climate, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.
Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science posts 64.3% exceeding the standard — versus 15.8% statewide — with climate numbers better than most. That doesn't make it perfect. It makes it worth a visit to find what numbers can't measure.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Grad rate | College readiness | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 83 | 64% | 88% | 98.4% | 85.5% | 10.3% | 0.4% |
| CA average · High School | 44 | 16% | 36% | 87.6% | 35.4% | 30.2% | 3.6% |
Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science scores 83 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 99th percentile of 2,160 California high schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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⭐ High Ceiling — Ask what happens for a kid who shows up behind — a high ceiling for the top can sit right next to thin support at the bottom, and the score alone won't show you which.
Most rating sites would stop at “88% proficient” and call it done. Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science deserves a closer read. The school sits in Long Beach, where one in four students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science's low-income kids hit 90.6% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 99th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 88% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 95% | 97% | 96% | 94% | 91% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 84% | 78% | 77% | 71% | 86% |
The story this school is actually telling
Of 100 students here: 88 are proficient by 11th grade → 98 graduate → 86 pass an AP exam. The gaps between those bars are the questions to ask.
Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science's most underrated number
90.6% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
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 whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science in Long Beach, 90.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 41.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science outperforms its district average for low-income students by 48.8 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (87.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (96.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 8.3 percentage points for white students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 32 students tested.
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
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$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.
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 552 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California high school (≈1450).
On the state's science test (CAST), 63% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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3 within ~3 mi · avg 58
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 112 | 75% | 16% | 9% | 0% | 91% | +44 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 11 | 112 | 54% | 32% | 12% | 3% | 86% | +62 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 112 | 25% | 38% | 36% | 1% |
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 | 32 | 90.6% | +49 | +52 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 32 | 96.9% | +52 | +58 |
| White | 29 | 82.8% | +6 | +21 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eunice Sato Academy of Math & Science ← | — | 83 | 64.3% | 88.4% | — | 0.4% |
| Los Alamitos High | 2.9 mi | 61 | 30.5% | 59.4% | — | 2.1% |
| Millikan High | 1.9 mi | 56 | 20.6% | 47.7% | — | 2.5% |
| Wilson High | 2.1 mi | 48 | 15.4% | 37.6% | — | 5.6% |
| California average | — | 44 | 15.8% | 35.7% | — | 3.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 82 | 98 | #36 | 52.4% | 89.3% | 7.9% | 1.3% | — |
| 2022 | 83 | 99 | #20 | 61.2% | 87.2% | 11.2% | 0.6% | — |
| 2023 | 80 | 99 | #28 | 54.2% | 86.5% | 9.7% | 0.5% | — |
| 2024 | 79 | 99 | #27 | 52.0% | 82.5% | 9.9% | 0.6% | — |
| 2025 | 83 | 99 | #17 | 64.3% | 88.4% | 10.3% | 0.4% | — |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 5.8% | 9.1% | +3.3pp |
| Male | 4.4% | 6.4% | +2.0pp |
| Asian | 1.6% | 5.2% | +3.6pp |
| Black/African American | 6.9% | 11.4% | +4.5pp |
| Filipino | 2.9% | — | — |
| White | 2.4% | 1.6% | -0.8pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.4% | 10.3% | +4.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 5.9% | 9.1% | +3.2pp |
| Homeless | 4.0% | 20.0% | +16.0pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 4.8% | 10.1% | +5.3pp |
| All Students | 4.9% | 7.4% | +2.5pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 6.1% | — |
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