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Ferndale Elementary — Rating & test scores

164 Shaw Avenue, Ferndale · 338 students · Grades TK–8

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Scope Score 77

SolidScope Score · 60th percentile. Higher than 60 in 100 of the 5,726 California public elementary schools we score.

75 is the typical California school. 100 is the best result in the state. How the score is built

Near California in English (reading and writing) and math: 42% and 50% scored Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5, spring 2026, against 46% and 42%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 113
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 3, 4 and 5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English and 1,211,701 in math tested).

For grades 6–8, the standing among California middle schools is in Tests ↓

Overview

Is Ferndale Elementary a good elementary school?

Solid. Ferndale Elementary is higher than most California elementary schools on math test results, progress in math and attendance. Ferndale Elementary is lower than most on English test results and progress in English.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced4942%
Math, Proficient or Advanced6850%
English, Advanced6727%
Math, Advanced6824%

Progress in a year, 2025

English29−3 pts
Math99+37 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance798 in 100
Ferndale Elementary’s place among California elementary schools, out of 100Bar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

28 of 362 students missed 10% or more of school days in 2025–26, against 17 in 100 at the average California elementary school.

Each bar is Ferndale Elementary’s place among 5,726 California public elementary schools we score. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, updated October 15, 2026.

How to read these bars, and their sources

A place counts the schools out of 100 with a lower figure. The dashed line is the middle. Test results are from spring 2026, grades 3–5. Progress is the state’s measure of how the same students’ scores changed against the score it expected, 2025. Attendance counts students who missed 10% or more of school days; fewer is better, so a higher place means fewer such students.

Source for the sentence
CDE chronic absenteeism file, 2025–26. All students counted for chronic absence (CDE’s eligible enrollment): 362. The California figure is an average of school rates (5,726 scored California elementary schools), our calculation.

In its own words

What does Ferndale Elementary say about itself?

We haven’t read Ferndale Elementary’s website yet. Until we do, the school’s own site is the best place to hear it in its own words.

Open fes.ferndalek12.org (opens in a new tab)

Progress

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

In English, about the same. In math, yes. In 2025, students here in grades 4–8 scored 3 points lower in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Average. In math, they scored 37 points higher, which the state calls Exceptional.

English

−3

points lower than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Average, the third of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

White124−4 points
Low-income83−10 points
Students with disabilities32−10 points
Hispanic or Latino30−5 points
English learners15−14 points

Math

+37

points higher than California students who had the same score a year earlier. The state calls it Exceptional, the highest of its five growth levels.

By student group · students counted

White124+34 points
Low-income83+35 points
Students with disabilities32+24 points
Hispanic or Latino30+40 points
English learners15+42 points

Grades 4–8, 2025, 170 students with scores in both years. Faded rows have fewer than 40 students. It describes results, not causes. Source: California Department of Education, growth model.

How the state’s growth measure works

The state calls this comparison an expected score. It sets one for each student from that student’s own score the year before.

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 3 points below that expected score, and in math 37 points above it.

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.

Schools like it

How does Ferndale Elementary compare with schools like it?

Ferndale Elementary’s Scope Score is 77. 586 California elementary schools, counting Ferndale Elementary, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 78. Ferndale Elementary’s result is higher than 239 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 586

  1. Students from low-income families: 51%

    Scope Score 97Strong · 99th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 41%

    Scope Score 97Strong · 99th percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 41%

    Scope Score 95Strong · 98th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 51%

    Scope Score 95Strong · 98th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 52%

    Wedgeworth Elementary

    Hacienda Heights

    Scope Score 94Strong · 98th percentile

586 California public elementary schools where 40% to 52% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. The chart compares results, not causes. Our calculation from California Department of Education records, spring 2026.

How the group is chosen

The group is every California public elementary school we score where 40% to 52% of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25. That is within 6 points of Ferndale Elementary’s share. The count includes Ferndale Elementary. Typical means the median: half are higher and half are lower. Schools differ in more than family income, and no score is changed for it. Our calculation from California Department of Education records: state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, and school meal eligibility, 2024–25.

Over time

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English went from 45% to 42% and math stayed at 50%.

Share at the state’s top two test levels, 2017 to 2026

Grades 3–5. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202628%46%CaliforniaCalifornia42%Ferndale ElementaryThis school

Math

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202628%50%Ferndale ElementaryThis school42%CaliforniaCalifornia

The lines break where a year has no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Each year’s results

The top two levels were called Met or Exceeded before 2026 and are called Proficient or Advanced now.

English, grades 3–5: share at the top two levels
SpringFerndale ElementaryCaliforniaTested here
201728%45%114
201835%49%103
201937%50%105
202234%45%102
202344%44%106
202450%45%105
202545%46%116
202642%46%113
Math, grades 3–5: share at the top two levels
SpringFerndale ElementaryCaliforniaTested here
201728%40%114
201825%42%103
201937%44%105
202239%38%102
202343%40%106
202449%41%106
202550%41%117
202650%42%113

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

Near California in English; above it in math.

English

42%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

39191527
California46%

Math

50%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

21292624
California42%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 42% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 50% in math, against 46% and 42% across California.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grades 3–5 combined. From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”). Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

How do the middle grades do?

Well above California in both subjects. In grades 6–8, spring 2026, 61% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 67% in math, against 49% and 37% across California. The middle grades are placed separately: 89th percentile (Strong) among California’s middle schools.

English

61%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

17223625
California49%

Math

67%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

15181849
California37%
Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced46%31%53%
Advanced14%24%42%
Proficient32%7%11%
Developing level25%17%14%
Minimal29%52%33%
Tested354236
California44%46%49%
Difference+2−15+4
English, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced65%54%62%
Advanced26%31%18%
Proficient39%23%44%
Developing level9%35%26%
Minimal26%11%12%
Tested433534
California48%51%49%
Difference+17+3+13

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

Math, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced60%40%50%
Advanced23%19%31%
Proficient37%21%19%
Developing level11%41%33%
Minimal29%19%17%
Tested354236
California47%42%37%
Difference+13−2+13
Math, grades 6–8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 6Grade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced55%80%71%
Advanced39%57%53%
Proficient16%23%18%
Developing level25%11%14%
Minimal20%9%15%
Tested443534
California37%38%36%
Difference+18+42+35

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.

All four test levels, with the number of students tested
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026. The state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal.
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 3–5 · This school27%15%19%39%113
English, grades 3–5 · California24%22%21%33%1,208,894
Math, grades 3–5 · This school24%26%29%21%113
Math, grades 3–5 · California21%21%25%33%1,211,701
English, grades 6–8 · This school25%36%22%17%112
English, grades 6–8 · California19%30%23%28%1,254,039
Math, grades 6–8 · This school49%18%18%15%113
Math, grades 6–8 · California21%16%23%40%1,254,800

Spring 2026, grades 3–5 combined: 113 tested in English, 113 tested in math. California combines the state’s results for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation).

Who goes here

Who goes here?

White students are the largest group here, at 68% of students. 28 of 362 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

8in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (28 of 362 students).

At the average California elementary school: 17 in 100.

No district average: Ferndale Elementary is the only regular elementary school we rank in the Ferndale Unified district with an attendance record.

Suspensions: 2.5% of students were suspended at least once (9 of 364). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Students, 2024–25

338

students in grades TK–8.

White 68%Hispanic or Latino 21%Two or more races 6%American Indian or Alaska Native 4%

Family income

46%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 155 of 338. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

20

teachers, with 11 years of experience on average.

5% were in their first year.

80% of teaching positions had the right credential, 2021–22.

English learners

33%

of English learners moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026 (5 of 15 students).

Ferndale Unified: 33%. California: 47%.

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Sources: California Department of Education and the California School Dashboard. Each tile names its year.

Missing school, by grade
Grades 4–6
6 in 100 students in grades 4–6 were chronically absent (8 of 125).
Grades 7–8
8 of 77 students in grades 7–8 were chronically absent.

Our records hold no figure for Grades TK–3.

Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
White68%
Hispanic or Latino21%
Two or more races6%
American Indian or Alaska Native4%
Asian—
Black or African American—
Filipino—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—
Where these figures come from

Attendance and suspensions: California Department of Education, 2025–26. Student mix: the students the state’s attendance file counts, 2025–26; a dash means our records hold no count. English learner progress: California School Dashboard, 2026 . Student count: California Department of Education enrollment, 2024–25. Teachers: California Department of Education staffing files, 2024–25.

Teaching credentials: California’s School Accountability Report Card, 2024–25, measured in 2021–22: 14.6 of 18.4 full-time teaching positions. It counts positions, not individual teachers.

Student groups

How do kids like mine do here?

Low-income students here scored well above the same group across California in math.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • Low-incomeEnglish · 96 tested35%California 37%
  • Low-incomeMath · 97 tested44%California 28%
  • WhiteEnglish · 159 tested57%California 61%
  • WhiteMath · 160 tested66%California 53%

44% of low-income students scored Proficient or Advanced in math (grades 3–8, spring 2026), against 28% for the same group across California.

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 3–8, spring 2026. Each group is compared with the same group in the same grades. Source: California Department of Education, state tests (CAASPP).

Every group’s results, with the district

Low-income is the state’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” group.

Proficient or Advancedgrades 3–8 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Ferndale Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 96 tested in English, 97 in math
English35%035%−237%
Math44%044%+1628%
White · 159 tested in English, 160 in math
English57%057%−461%
Math66%066%+1353%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Ferndale Unified, 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.

No published rate here for Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, students of two or more races, 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.

Family and staff answers

What would families and staff tell you?

Families can answer a short set of questions about Ferndale Elementary. These are not star ratings or reviews.

  1. Family answers show once 20 families have answered.Until then this page shows how many have answered.
  2. The questions are about the school, never a person.No question asks about a named teacher or staff member.
  3. Answers are never part of the Scope Score.They sit beside the state’s records and do not change a school’s score.

Families

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  • Does the school tell you how your child is doing, in a way you understand, before report cards arrive?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely
  • When you contact the school with a question, do you hear back within two school days?Usually · Sometimes · Rarely · Haven’t contacted them
  • Can you get school information in the language you read best?Yes · Mostly · No
  • And 4 more questions.

Answer the family questionsResponder en españolHow family answers work

Staff

Staff can’t answer for this school yet

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The school day

What is the school day like?

Ferndale Elementary has transitional kindergarten (TK). Our records do not hold school hours or before- and after-school care yet. Ask the office.

Transitional kindergarten (TK), 2025–26

24

TK students in 2025–26.

TK is California’s free public program for four-year-olds.

TK count: California Department of Education, Census Day enrollment, 2025–26. Find TK schools near you

Money

Where does the money go?

$18,180 for each student in 2024–25. California’s elementary schools spent $20,288 for each student. Ferndale Unified’s plan for 2026–27 covers $7 million.

$18,180

for each student at this school, 2024–25
Spent at the school
$16,476
The school’s share of district office costs
$1,704
Of the total, from federal funds
$1,404
  • Ferndale Elementary$18,180
  • California elementary schools$20,288

The district and California figures combine their elementary schools, weighted by enrollment (our calculation, 5,053 California schools). Spending does not show how well money is used. Source: California Department of Education, per-school spending report, 2024–25. Funding records ↓

Ferndale Unified’s yearly plan

$7million

in the district’s plan for 2026–27

$612,812

planned for services for English learners, low-income students and foster youth

This is the district’s plan. It is not this school’s own budget. The plan has 2 goals. The district’s page lists each one. The plan covers $7 million of $10 million in total budgeted spending. Source: Ferndale Unified Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), 2026–27.

The neighborhood

What is the area around Ferndale Elementary like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 95536. They are not figures for the families at Ferndale Elementary.

Typical household income in a year

$73,375

Typical means half are higher and half are lower. The ZIP code is the school’s address, not its attendance area. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2020–2024, ZIP code area 95536.

Typical home value
$566,000
People who live in this ZIP code
3,050
Typical age
51.7 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
30%

What you can do

Who can act on Ferndale Elementary’s results?

Ferndale Unified’s board decides Ferndale Elementary’s plan.

How to take part

  1. Watch the board’s agenda: the hearing is posted at least 72 hours ahead.
  2. Send written comments on the actions and spending the plan proposes.
  3. Raise questions through the district’s parent advisory committee; the superintendent must answer its comments in writing.
  4. Read the midyear report, due by February 28.

State support

The state hasn’t placed Ferndale Elementary in a support program. Federal designation under the Every Student Succeeds Act, 2025–26. Source 

Reading screening in kindergarten through grade 2

California law requires schools to screen kindergartners through second graders for reading difficulties every year, with some exceptions. You get notice at least 15 days before, results within 45 days, and can opt out in writing.

Kindergartners can’t be screened before the 91st school day; transitional kindergarten isn’t covered.

If screening shows your child may be at risk for reading difficulties, the school must provide supports. That result isn’t a diagnosis, and screening can’t be used to delay a special-education evaluation.

Ask how many K–2 students screening found at risk last year, and how many got extra reading help.

California Education Code § 53008. Source 

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 4 questions to Ferndale Elementary. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. What changes for a student who falls behind in English?3 points lower in English than California students who had the same score the year before, grades 4–8, 2025 (170 students)
  2. What are the school-day hours and after-school care options?

At the office

  1. What time does the day start and end, and is any day shorter?
  2. Is there care before or after school, and what does it cost?

Getting in

What comes after Ferndale Elementary, and how do I get in?

Ferndale Elementary runs through 8th grade, so there’s no middle-school move. Ask Ferndale Unified which school serves your address.

  1. Grades TK–8 · this school
    Ferndale Elementary
    Scope Score 77Solid · 60th percentile
  2. High
    Ferndale High
    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

These links come from past records and from distance. Confirm your child’s school with the district. Explore schools on the map

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

High-school links

  • Ferndale High

    Its zone mostly overlaps this school’s zone on a historical federal map (2015–16)

    100% historical overlap of origin attendance-zone area · not a share of students

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. Older zone links come from the federal School Attendance Boundary Survey (NCES SABS).

Where the path ends: Ferndale High
Ferndale Highhistorical direct overlap

The road from this school ends at Ferndale High. The AP Course Audit lists 5 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. That figure comes from dated records. A child starting here today would reach Ferndale High around 2036, and a school can change a lot in 10 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 78% of the students who finished high school at Ferndale High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

5 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on Ferndale High's page
Source: College Board AP Course Ledger

Where it is

Where is Ferndale Elementary?

Address
164 Shaw Avenue, Ferndale 95536Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Danielle CarmesinAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated October 3, 2023.

A school’s place on the map is its address in the state directory. It does not show which homes the school serves. See nearby schools on the map

Short answers to 7 common questions

How do I get in?

Ferndale Elementary runs through 8th grade, so there’s no middle-school move. Ask Ferndale Unified which school serves your address. See the details ↓

Is Ferndale Elementary a good school?

Ferndale Elementary has a Scope Score of 77. It scored higher than 60 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools (Solid, 60th percentile, spring 2026).

  • Grades 6–8: higher than 89 in 100 California middle schools we score (89th percentile, Strong, spring 2026)

See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 8 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 17 in 100 at the average California elementary school. 2.5% of students (9 of 364) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. See the details ↓

Did students here score higher than students who started at the same place?

In English, about the same. In math, yes. In 2025, students here in grades 4–8 scored 3 points lower in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Average. In math, they scored 37 points higher, which the state calls Exceptional.

  • Included in this measure: 170 students

See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 35% of low-income students in grades 3–8 at Ferndale Elementary scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 37% for the same group across California. See the details ↓

Where does it lead?

In the 2015–16 federal attendance-boundary survey, most of Ferndale Elementary's attendance area fell inside the attendance area of Ferndale High. 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 doesn’t guarantee placement; confirm your address with the district. See the details ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Questions to ask, ready to copy. See the details ↓

The full record

Source records

This page is built from 12 sets of records from public data sources. Every figure keeps its source, grades, year and count.

Data updated

October 15, 2026

Record sets on this page
12
Sources
California Department of EducationU.S. Census Bureau
State test years
2017–2026

Results

Students

Money and staff

Place, downloads and method

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #2,243 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math25%5442%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math47%5323%
Chronically absent8 in 100635%
Suspension rate2.5% (9 of 364)445%
English learners: top level6%355%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)-1.5pp—not scored

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. The weights above add to 80%: the remaining 20%, for measures with no value here, is shared out among the measures above.

Scope Score by year2018–19 to 2025–26 · each year’s inputs, and the score for each year we could verify

Scope Score

School yearScope ScorePercentileRankComparison group
2025–267760#2243California elementary schools · 5,726 schools · current formula

2018–19, 2021–22, 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 yearChronic absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–197 in 1001.7% (6 of 346)−6
2021–22not on filenot on file−13
2022–23not on filenot on file−4
2023–2412 in 1004.7% (17 of 361)−18
2024–258 in 1003.6% (13 of 358)+13
2025–268 in 1002.5% (9 of 364)−1

Chronic absence and suspension are CDE’s all-students school rates for each year.

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
No 2019–20 or 2020–21 records in this SchoolScope series
Every tested year2017–2026 · rates, tested counts, and each grade

English and math by test year · all tested grades

Year · subjectStudents with scoresTop levelTop two levels
2026 · English22526%52%
2026 · Math22636%58%
2025 · English21722%51%
2025 · Math21833%58%
2024 · English22019%48%
2024 · Math22129%56%
2023 · English23216%45%
2023 · Math23217%41%
2022 · English22113%43%
2022 · Math22214%38%
2019 · English21613%38%
2019 · Math21610%37%
2018 · English21712%42%
2018 · Math21614%33%
2017 · English24112%43%
2017 · Math2409%34%

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 · subjectStudents with scoresMet or exceeded
2025 · Grade 3 · English3832%
2025 · Grade 4 · English3650%
2025 · Grade 5 · English4252%
2025 · Grade 6 · English3546%
2025 · Grade 7 · English3661%
2025 · Grade 8 · English3070%
2025 · Grade 3 · Math3839%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math3669%
2025 · Grade 5 · Math4344%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math3546%
2025 · Grade 7 · Math3686%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math3070%
2024 · Grade 3 · English3367%
2024 · Grade 4 · English4045%
2024 · Grade 5 · English3238%
2024 · Grade 6 · English3639%
2024 · Grade 7 · English3656%
2024 · Grade 8 · English4347%
2024 · Grade 3 · Math3355%
2024 · Grade 4 · Math4045%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math3348%
2024 · Grade 6 · Math3636%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math3681%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math4367%
2023 · Grade 3 · English4146%
2023 · Grade 4 · English3047%
2023 · Grade 5 · English3540%
2023 · Grade 6 · English4055%
2023 · Grade 7 · English4549%
2023 · Grade 8 · English4132%
2023 · Grade 3 · Math4141%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math3050%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math3540%
2023 · Grade 6 · Math4038%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math4450%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math4229%
2022 · Grade 3 · English2948%
2022 · Grade 4 · English3818%
2022 · Grade 5 · English3540%
2022 · Grade 6 · English4556%
2022 · Grade 7 · English4252%
2022 · Grade 8 · English3244%
2022 · Grade 3 · Math3050%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math3837%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math3432%
2022 · Grade 6 · Math4641%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math4236%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math3231%
2019 · Grade 3 · English3837%
2019 · Grade 4 · English3732%
2019 · Grade 5 · English3043%
2019 · Grade 6 · English3339%
2019 · Grade 7 · English4533%
2019 · Grade 8 · English3342%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math3845%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math3738%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math3027%
2019 · Grade 6 · Math3327%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math4536%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math3348%
2018 · Grade 3 · English3324%
2018 · Grade 4 · English3241%
2018 · Grade 5 · English3839%
2018 · Grade 6 · English4635%
2018 · Grade 7 · English3067%
2018 · Grade 8 · English3850%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math3330%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math3231%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math3816%
2018 · Grade 6 · Math4626%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math2952%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math3850%
2017 · Grade 3 · English3126%
2017 · Grade 4 · English3923%
2017 · Grade 5 · English4434%
2017 · Grade 6 · English3453%
2017 · Grade 7 · English4267%
2017 · Grade 8 · English5151%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math3142%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math3926%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math4420%
2017 · Grade 6 · Math3429%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math4149%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math5137%

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)schoolwide · spring 2026
Science (CAST)TestedAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimal
Schoolwide7026%27%39%9%

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.

Student groups: test resultsEnglish · spring 2026 · against the same group in the district and California
Group · EnglishTestedProficient or Advancedvs districtvs California
Low-income9635%0−2
White15957%0−4
Student groups: the state’s growth measureCalifornia School Dashboard 2025 · points above or below what the state expected · shown, not part of the score
GroupEnglishnCDE categoryMathnCDE category
All students−3170Average+37170Exceptional
English-only students−3149not categorized+36149not categorized
White−4124Average+34124Exceptional
Low-income−1083Moderate+3583Exceptional
Students with disabilities−1032Moderate+2432Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino−530Average+4030Exceptional
English learners−1415Moderate+4215Exceptional

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. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure
California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English−3 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4–8

170 students

CDE growth category: Average

California growth model, English: −3 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math+37 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4–8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

Weighted school estimate; assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25

All students, grades 4–8

170 students

CDE growth category: Exceptional

California growth model, math: +37 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Exceptional, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

Source notes. CDE reports scale-score points against the state’s expected score for matched students, never a percentage. Among SchoolScope's retained California elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 scale-score points — the spread is wide, so read the figure against it, not its sign alone. CDE's 2025 Dashboard weighted school estimate uses assessments from 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25; adjacent reporting editions should not be read as independent annual changes. The CDE measure covers grades 4–8, and it is not part of the Scope Score.

Attendance and suspensionsState records · this school and each student group · 2018–19 and 2025–26

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 · 8 in 100 · 0 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 3.6% (13 of 358) → 2025–26 · 2.5% (9 of 364) · −1.1 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female7 in 1007 in 1000 in 100
Male6 in 1008 in 100+2 in 100
Hispanic or Latino3 of 7912 of 75—
American Indian or Alaska Native2 of 200 of 14—
White8 in 1006 in 100−2 in 100
Students with disabilities6 of 616 of 80—
English learners2 of 336 of 18—
Homeless1 of 12——
Low-income8 in 10013 in 100+5 in 100
All students7 in 1008 in 100+1 in 100
Two or more races—0 of 23—

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. Where fewer than 100 students were counted, the cell shows the count and no change is printed. Source: CDE school-level chronic absenteeism by student group.

Fundingschool and district spending, from state and federal finance records · each row names its fiscal year and measure

Per-pupil spending

District · current expense$14,304 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 454 pupils

California · selected district mean$14,491 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · SchoolScope’s unweighted mean across 818 selected California district finance records

School-level federal expenditures$1,404 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 338

District current expense · FY 2024–25$20,130 per ADA

CDE SACS Current Expense of Education · district fiscal year ending 2025 · average daily attendance denominator

These figures are not directly comparable: school ESSA attributed spending and NCES district current expense use different measures and populations. Their fiscal years are labeled above.

How the California mean was selected

SchoolScope starts with its selected California finance records, not every NCES California district. For FY 2020–21, it calculates an unweighted mean of NCES F-33 current expense per pupil. District records contribute once, regardless of enrollment. The calculation keeps records with positive per-pupil current expense, enrollment over 100, CCD agency type 1, and a recorded district name; it excludes names ending in County Office of Education, Department of Education, or Superintendent of Schools. This is a SchoolScope calculation, not a state-published spending average.

Selected General Fund operating costs · FY 2024–⁠25 · SchoolScope calculation
Instruction 63%Instruction support 11%Student services 6%Administration 9%Buildings & maintenance 9%Other 2%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$5,852,79063.45%63%
Instruction support$1,025,26411.12%11%
Student services$563,4106.11%6%
Administration$783,2928.49%9%
Buildings & maintenance$842,0689.13%9%
Other$156,9311.70%2%
Total$9,223,755100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $9,223,755 total of the groups shown, rounded to whole percents by largest remainder so they add up to 100. Dollar amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar, so they can differ from the total by a dollar. SchoolScope groups district-level CDE SACS UserGL actuals from Fund 01, using operating objects 1000–5999 and excluding retiree benefits, food and community services, facilities acquisition, other outgo, and nonagency goals. These shares use that filtered total; they do not exactly break down CDE's official current expense per ADA above. The school-level ESSA figure uses a separate source.

NCES F-33 district fiscal-year history, 2017–⁠2021; latest district record shown: 2021
2021$14,304 per pupil
2020$13,921 per pupil
2019$14,846 per pupil
2018$13,194 per pupil
2017$11,230 per pupil
Staffing recordsstate teacher credential-and-placement and district salary records · each for its own year

Additional workforce records

Properly assigned intern credential holders0.0%

CDE 2024–25 SARC, Teacher Preparation and Placement table; measured school year 2021–22. Share of reported school teaching-position full-time equivalents assigned to properly assigned intern credential holders. A reported 0.0% is shown; unavailable rates are omitted. This is a position share, not a count of current teachers or of emergency permits.

The surrounding ZIP codeCensus Bureau survey, 2020–2024 · ZIP 95536 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 95536 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$73,375
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30%
ZIP-area population3,050
Median age51.7 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 95536 →

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