English
Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 209 tested
- Advanced
- 42%
- Proficient
- 29%
- Below the standard
- 29%
71% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.
Public school · Chula Vista Elementary · Chula Vista, California
Chula Vista · TK–6 · 467 students (2024–25)
The dots are California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools, placed by Scope Score on spring 2026 tests. How it’s built →
Weighted composite · 2025–26
A weighted mix of six measures.
Well above California in English (reading and writing) and math, grades 3–5, spring 2026: 71% and 62% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 46% and 42%.
From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”).
This rating covers grades 3–5. Fahari L. Jeffers Elementary teaches TK–6: grade 6 results ↓
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Fahari L. Jeffers Elementary’s 2025–26 test results, released October 15, 2026, are on this page.
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In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 42% of students tested in English and 38% in math scored Advanced, against 24% and 21% across California. Advanced is the top of the state’s four levels.
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Fahari L. Jeffers Elementary scores higher than 83 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools: 83rd percentile, Strong, spring 2026. Evidence ↓
In 2025–26, 9 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 12 in 100 at the average elementary school in the Chula Vista Elementary district. 1.5% of students (8 of 546) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. Evidence ↓
In English, yes; in math, about as expected. In 2025, students here in grades 4–6 scored +6 points against the state’s expected score in English, which the state calls Accelerated. In math, they scored −2 points, which it calls Average.
In spring 2026, 52% of low-income students in grades 3–6 at Fahari L. Jeffers Elementary in Chula Vista scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 36% for the same group across California. Evidence ↓
By the district’s published 2025 attendance boundaries, Fahari L. Jeffers Elementary is zoned to Rancho del Rey Middle. Boundaries change, are approximate at the edges and don’t guarantee placement, so confirm your address with the district.
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Academic achievement
Well above California in both subjects.
State tests (CAASPP), spring 2026
In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 71% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 62% in math, against 46% and 42% across California.
Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 209 tested
71% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.
Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 210 tested
62% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.
What each level means: California's level descriptions.
English
| Measure | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proficient or Advanced | 63% | 80% | 74% |
| Advanced | 33% | 54% | 43% |
| Proficient | 30% | 26% | 31% |
| Developing level | 25% | 13% | 15% |
| Minimal | 12% | 7% | 11% |
| Tested | 83 | 56 | 70 |
| California | 44% | 46% | 49% |
| Difference | +19 | +34 | +25 |
| Measure | Grade 6 |
|---|---|
| Proficient or Advanced | 68% |
| Advanced | 38% |
| Proficient | 30% |
| Developing level | 18% |
| Minimal | 14% |
| Tested | 66 |
| California | 48% |
| Difference | +20 |
California is CDE’s statewide English row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).
Math
| Measure | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proficient or Advanced | 62% | 73% | 53% |
| Advanced | 35% | 50% | 33% |
| Proficient | 27% | 23% | 20% |
| Developing level | 23% | 20% | 26% |
| Minimal | 15% | 7% | 21% |
| Tested | 84 | 56 | 70 |
| California | 47% | 42% | 37% |
| Difference | +15 | +31 | +16 |
| Measure | Grade 6 |
|---|---|
| Proficient or Advanced | 64% |
| Advanced | 45% |
| Proficient | 19% |
| Developing level | 16% |
| Minimal | 20% |
| Tested | 66 |
| California | 37% |
| Difference | +27 |
California is CDE’s statewide math row for each grade, counting every student tested there; the comparisons in the chapters combine these rows for their grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).
A grade the school doesn't teach has no row. “Suppressed” marks a result CDE blanks because fewer than 11 students tested (CDE’s reporting rule); “none tested” marks a grade CDE lists with no students tested; “not on file” marks a result missing from the records we hold. None of them means zero.
New to these scores? Read CAASPP scores explained: how to read your child’s report →
School pattern · grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · What patterns mean
Well above California in both subjects. In grade 6, spring 2026, 68% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 64% in math, against 48% and 37% across California.
Grade 6 · spring 2026 · 66 tested
68% Proficient or Advanced in grade 6.
Grade 6 · spring 2026 · 66 tested
64% Proficient or Advanced in grade 6.
Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English went from 72% to 71% and math from 66% to 62%.
This school
California, same grades46% → 46%2025 → 2026 · 1,232,086 → 1,208,894 tested
This school
California, same grades41% → 42%2025 → 2026 · 1,241,652 → 1,211,701 tested
Each year is a different group of students.
In English, yes; in math, about as expected. California sets an expected score for each student from that student’s own score the year before. In 2025, students here in grades 4–6 scored +6 points against that expected score in English, which the state calls Accelerated. In math, they scored −2 points, which it calls Average.
Grades 4–6 · 2025 · 154 students in English, 153 in math, with scores in both years
Points above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores.
+6 pts
The state calls it Accelerated, the fourth of its five growth levels.
−2 pts
The state calls it Average, the third of its five growth levels.
Ask: How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?
| Students | Advanced | Proficient | Developing level | Minimal | Tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English, grades 3–5 · This school | 42% | 29% | 18% | 11% | 209 |
| English, grades 3–5 · California | 24% | 22% | 21% | 33% | 1,208,894 |
| English, grades 3–5 · Chula Vista Elementary | 27% | 25% | 21% | 27% | 10,660 |
| Math, grades 3–5 · This school | 38% | 24% | 23% | 15% | 210 |
| Math, grades 3–5 · California | 21% | 21% | 25% | 33% | 1,211,701 |
| Math, grades 3–5 · Chula Vista Elementary | 21% | 24% | 26% | 29% | 10,793 |
| English, grade 6 · This school | 38% | 30% | 18% | 14% | 66 |
| English, grade 6 · California | 20% | 28% | 24% | 28% | 415,439 |
| English, grade 6 · Chula Vista Elementary | 26% | 33% | 23% | 18% | 3,845 |
| Math, grade 6 · This school | 45% | 19% | 16% | 20% | 66 |
| Math, grade 6 · California | 21% | 16% | 25% | 38% | 415,904 |
| Math, grade 6 · Chula Vista Elementary | 25% | 20% | 25% | 30% | 3,872 |
Below the standard combines the state’s Developing and Minimal levels, its two lowest. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2026. The state comparison combines CDE’s rows for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation). The district row combines its public schools in the same grades, weighted by students tested.
English and math results for the tested grades. These do not measure the experience in kindergarten or the early grades.
Chart and table: 2023–2026. Hover, tap or focus a chart and use the arrow keys to see each year.
2026 was the lowest year in this series in both subjects. Each year is a different group of students.
| Year | This school | California |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 79% 123 tested | 44% 1,247,801 tested |
| 2024 | 80% 161 tested | 45% 1,235,509 tested |
| 2025 | 72% 178 tested | 46% 1,232,086 tested |
| 2026 | 71% 209 tested | 46% 1,208,894 tested |
| Year | This school | California |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 72% 124 tested | 40% 1,256,519 tested |
| 2024 | 73% 161 tested | 41% 1,249,262 tested |
| 2025 | 66% 177 tested | 41% 1,241,652 tested |
| 2026 | 62% 210 tested | 42% 1,211,701 tested |
California uses each student’s English and math scores from the year before to set an expected score, based on how students with similar earlier scores did across the state. Zero would mean students here scored as expected. In English they scored 6 points above that expected score, and in math 2 points below it. Unlike the growth in our Scope Score, it follows the same students from one year to the next.
The state sorts every school’s growth result into five growth levels, from Minimal to Exceptional.
Here, as at most schools, the state’s figure blends the two most recent years, so it moves more slowly than one year’s scores.
Our Scope Score measures growth another way. It compares the latest grade 5 scores here with the school’s grade 3 scores two years earlier (partly different children), then places that change among California schools at the same level. The state’s measure counts only students who took California’s test the year before, so the two can point different ways.
Life at school
9 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2025–26.
State attendance and suspension records, 2025–26
That means they missed 10% or more of school days. 1.5% of students were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school.
Context Close to the 12 in 100 at the average elementary school in the Chula Vista Elementary district: a pattern across the district.
51 of 542 students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days.
1.5%
of students were suspended at least once (8 of 546). Average California elementary school 1.6%.
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Every learner
Hispanic or Latino students here scored well above the same group across California.
Student groups, grades 3–6, spring 2026
56% of Hispanic or Latino students scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 47% in math (grades 3–6, spring 2026), against 37% and 30% for the same group across California. Low-income students here scored well above the same group across California in English.
Proficient or Advanced, grades 3–6, spring 2026.
44% of English learners here moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026.
Spring 2025 to spring 2026 · English learners with state English test (ELPAC) scores in both years
It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Data source: California Department of Education, 2026 Dashboard ↗.
22%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 101 of 467. California: 63%.
21teachers, 2024–25
12 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25
5%in their first year, 2024–25
Ask: How does the school keep Hispanic or Latino students on track as they move up through the grades?
| Group and subject | Here | vs Chula Vista Elementary | vs California |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low-income · 66 tested | |||
| English | 52% | +943% | +1636% |
| Math | 41% | +833% | +1130% |
| Hispanic or Latino · 110 tested in English, 111 in math | |||
| English | 56% | +848% | +1937% |
| Math | 47% | +1037% | +1730% |
| Filipino · 72 tested | |||
| English | 89% | +1277% | +2069% |
| Math | 89% | +1574% | +2762% |
Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Chula Vista Elementary, and across California. ■ Green: a group that is behind across California does much better here, by 10 points or more and more than twice the margin of error.
Students of two or more races, 37 tested: no rate for grades 4–6 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, White, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, English learners, students with disabilities and foster youth. That can reflect privacy rules or small numbers; it isn’t evidence of a gap. This table covers groups by income, race or ethnicity, language and disability; girls and boys aren’t split out.
| Students, 2025–26 | Here |
|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 42% |
| Filipino | 24% |
| Two or more races | 14% |
| White | 8% |
| Asian | 6% |
| Black or African American | 6% |
| American Indian or Alaska Native | — |
| Pacific Islander | — |
| Not reported | — |
Data source: California Department of Education chronic-absence file, 2025–26. Shares are of the students the file counts for attendance (CDE’s “eligible enrollment”); unavailable categories are shown as a dash.
Next steps
Rancho del Rey Middle, then Otay Ranch Senior High.
Fahari L. Jeffers’s attendance zone is split: 74% of its children are assigned to Otay Ranch Senior High and the other 26% to Olympian High. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level.
Or Olympian High for the other 26% (84th · Strong · 2025).
From Sweetwater Union High’s 2025 attendance boundaries. Shares are our estimate of where the zone’s children live, from 2020 Census child counts, or land area where few children were counted; they describe children living in the zone, not a school’s enrolled students. A boundary doesn’t guarantee placement: transfers, permits, magnets and other programs can change the path. Check your child’s address and current assignment with Sweetwater Union High, the separate district that runs the middle and high schools. Explore schools on the map
Assigned
85th percentile · Strong · middle · 2026
Assigned for part of the zone
78th percentile · Strong · high · 2025
74% of the zone’s children
Assigned for part of the zone
84th percentile · Strong · high · 2025
26% of the zone’s children
Links do not guarantee placement. Charter, magnet, transfer and other admission routes can differ. Each school’s percentile compares it with California schools at its own level (continuation and alternative schools only with their own kind); the stages are not one ranking.
The road from this school ends at Otay Ranch Senior High. UC records 59 enrollees from Otay Ranch Senior High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 29 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. A child starting here today would reach Otay Ranch Senior High around 2036, and a school can change a lot in 10 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 83% of the students who finished high school at Otay Ranch Senior High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.
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The closest elementary schools, by straight-line distance from this campus. Distance isn’t an attendance boundary.
Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.
Every figure on this page, with its source, grades, year and count.
| Factor | School | Index | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advancedaverage of English and math | 41% | 69 | 42% |
| Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math | 68% | 69 | 23% |
| 5th graders in 2026 against 3rd graders in 2024 (partly different children) | +74 scale-score pts | 46 | 20% |
| Chronically absent | 9 in 100 | 61 | 5% |
| Suspension rate | 1.5% (8 of 546) | 51 | 5% |
| English learners: top level | 20% | 56 | 5% |
Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary schools we score, from 0 to 100, where 50 is their average; it is not a percentile. School values are from 2025–26. Chronic absence and suspension are CDE's all-students school rates; the score uses an adjusted version of each that pulls small schools toward the average, so their index can sit nearer 50 than the rate suggests. Growth is the change between the school's earlier and later grade-level groups, in scale-score points; it does not follow the same students.
| School year | Scope Score | Percentile | Rank | Comparison group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 57 | 83 | #930 | California elementary schools · 5,726 schools · current formula |
2022–23, 2023–24 and 2024–25 have records on file but no Scope Score we could verify against that year’s source files, so no score is shown for them.
| School year | Chronic absence | Suspension | Grade gap (points) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022–23 | not on file | not on file | +6 |
| 2023–24 | 6 in 100 | 0.9% (4 of 458) | +1 |
| 2024–25 | 8 in 100 | 2.0% (10 of 494) | +5 |
| 2025–26 | 9 in 100 | 1.5% (8 of 546) | +1 |
Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.
English and math by test year · all tested grades
| Year · subject | Students with scores | Top level | Top two levels |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · English | 275 | 41% | 71% |
| 2026 · Math | 276 | 40% | 62% |
| 2025 · English | 219 | 42% | 74% |
| 2025 · Math | 218 | 30% | 67% |
| 2024 · English | 196 | 51% | 81% |
| 2024 · Math | 196 | 45% | 74% |
| 2023 · English | 152 | 43% | 81% |
| 2023 · Math | 153 | 42% | 73% |
Each year names its school year end (2026 = 2025–26). “Students with scores” counts each subject on its own, so don’t add the English and math counts together. A dash is unavailable, not zero.
Earlier years · grade and subject
| Year · grade · subject | Students with scores | Met or exceeded |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 · Grade 3 · English | 54 | 65% |
| 2025 · Grade 4 · English | 60 | 78% |
| 2025 · Grade 5 · English | 64 | 72% |
| 2025 · Grade 6 · English | 41 | 80% |
| 2025 · Grade 3 · Math | 54 | 63% |
| 2025 · Grade 4 · Math | 60 | 70% |
| 2025 · Grade 5 · Math | 63 | 65% |
| 2025 · Grade 6 · Math | 41 | 68% |
| 2024 · Grade 3 · English | 58 | 74% |
| 2024 · Grade 4 · English | 60 | 80% |
| 2024 · Grade 5 · English | 43 | 88% |
| 2024 · Grade 6 · English | 35 | 86% |
| 2024 · Grade 3 · Math | 58 | 76% |
| 2024 · Grade 4 · Math | 60 | 77% |
| 2024 · Grade 5 · Math | 43 | 63% |
| 2024 · Grade 6 · Math | 35 | 83% |
| 2023 · Grade 3 · English | 50 | 72% |
| 2023 · Grade 4 · English | 37 | 84% |
| 2023 · Grade 5 · English | 36 | 83% |
| 2023 · Grade 6 · English | 29 | 90% |
| 2023 · Grade 3 · Math | 51 | 71% |
| 2023 · Grade 4 · Math | 37 | 73% |
| 2023 · Grade 5 · Math | 36 | 72% |
| 2023 · Grade 6 · Math | 29 | 76% |
Current 2025–26 grade results are under Academic achievement, in Results for each grade. “Students with scores” counts the students tested in that grade, subject and year. A missing result is not zero, and each year’s row is a different group of children.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | Advanced | Proficient | Developing level | Minimal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 70 | 21% | 27% | 44% | 7% |
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.
| Group · English | Tested | Proficient or Advanced | vs district | vs California |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low-income | 66 | 52% | +9 | +16 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 110 | 56% | +8 | +19 |
| Filipino | 72 | 89% | +12 | +20 |
| Group | English | n | CDE category | Math | n | CDE category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All students | +6 | 154 | Accelerated | −2 | 153 | Average |
| English-only students | +4 | 104 | not categorized | −2 | 104 | not categorized |
| Hispanic or Latino | +2 | 55 | Average | −8 | 54 | Moderate |
| Filipino | +10 | 42 | Accelerated | +4 | 42 | Average |
| Low-income | −10 | 30 | Moderate | −3 | 29 | Average |
| English learners | +16 | 28 | Accelerated | +8 | 28 | Accelerated |
| Students with disabilities | +11 | 22 | Accelerated | −8 | 22 | Moderate |
| Recently reclassified as fluent in English | +34 | 19 | not categorized | +13 | 19 | not categorized |
| Asian | +12 | 17 | Accelerated | +23 | 17 | Exceptional |
| White | +13 | 16 | Accelerated | +1 | 16 | Average |
| Two or more races | +25 | 14 | Exceptional | +7 | 14 | Accelerated |
CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score — not a percentage or percentile. The table keeps the group records SchoolScope imported for this school, including rows below our narrative display threshold. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a valid growth score. SchoolScope uses that threshold for the shorter narrative view; the reported values stay visible here. “Not categorized” means this imported CDE row has a growth value without a performance category. At least one estimate here is a CDE weighted estimate; that describes how CDE combines years, not a year-over-year trend. A group absent from this table has no imported record shown here. Its absence alone does not establish its size or performance. CDE growth covers grades 4–8; here that is grades 4–6. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.
State model · English+6 pts vs expected
matched students, grades 4–6California growth model, English: +6 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Accelerated, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.State model · math−2 pts vs expected
matched students, grades 4–6California growth model, math: −2 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.CDE’s all-students school rates for 2024–25 and 2025–26; the change is the difference between the two rates as printed.
| Year-over-year school rates |
|---|
| Chronic absenteeism2024–25 · 8 in 100 → 2025–26 · 9 in 100 · +1 in 100 |
| Suspension rate2024–25 · 2.0% (10 of 494) → 2025–26 · 1.5% (8 of 546) · −0.5 percentage points |
| Group | 2018–19 | 2025–26 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | — | 9 in 100 | — |
| Male | — | 10 in 100 | — |
| Asian | — | 9 in 100 | — |
| Black or African American | — | 6 in 100 | — |
| Filipino | — | 5 in 100 | — |
| Hispanic or Latino | — | 14 in 100 | — |
| Two or more races | — | 4 in 100 | — |
| White | — | 10 in 100 | — |
| Students with disabilities | — | 20 in 100 | — |
| English learners | — | 22 in 100 | — |
| Low-income | — | 21 in 100 | — |
| All students | — | 9 in 100 | — |
Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.
NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 28,600 pupils
NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records
CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 467
CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 467
CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator
| Group | Dollars | Share, to two decimals | Printed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instruction | $248,933,121 | 61.72% | 62% |
| Instruction support | $33,061,774 | 8.20% | 8% |
| Student services | $51,629,692 | 12.80% | 13% |
| Administration | $22,389,361 | 5.55% | 6% |
| Buildings & maintenance | $29,575,373 | 7.33% | 7% |
| Other | $17,753,343 | 4.40% | 4% |
| Total | $403,342,665 | 100.00% | 100% |
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
| Measure | Estimate |
|---|---|
| Median household income | $129,337 |
| Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+) | 43% |
| ZIP-area population | 57,721 |
| Median age | 35.7 years |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Median household income covers the past 12 months and is reported in 2024 inflation-adjusted dollars. Bachelor's degree or higher uses adults age 25 and over as its population. A dash is unavailable, not zero; a reported zero remains zero. ZIP-area figures do not establish the school's attendance area or describe its enrolled students. These figures are not part of the Scope Score. See all schools in ZIP code 91913 →
Data sources: public data sources, including the California Department of Education · state tests (CAASPP) 2025–26 · Scope Score from 2025–26 results, compared across 5,726 elementary schools · attendance and suspensions by student group from 2018–19 and 2025–26 · district finance for the year each row names · Census survey (ACS) 2020–2024 · Data updated October 15, 2026
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