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Fletcher Elementary

San Diego, CA · Grades TK-5 · San Diego Unified

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32% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 44% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

44%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

English

32%

Grades 3 & 5 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

—

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

25%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 3 & 5 · 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: 51%2022: 24%2023: 16%2024: 12%2025: 44%2019: 54%2022: 24%2023: 25%2024: 29%2025: 32%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2019: 51%2022: 24%2023: 16%2024: 12%2025: 44%2019: 54%2022: 24%2023: 25%2024: 29%2025: 32%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
201951%54%
202224%24%
202316%25%
202412%29%
202544%32%

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

Has stayed near the 57th percentile since 2019.

Most rating sites would stop at “39% proficient” and call it done. Fletcher deserves a closer read. It sits at the 57th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.

59 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Fletcher Elementary scores 39 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 57th percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 39% meet the standard today, versus 54% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.

Percentile among 5,721 elementary schools statewide
Year detailsYear2019 · 62nd percentile · Scope Score 42 of 1002022 · 18th percentile · Scope Score 20 of 1002023 · 16th percentile · Scope Score 20 of 1002024 · 11th percentile · Scope Score 21 of 1002025 · 57th percentile · Scope Score 39 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased Significantly)MathYellow(Increased Significantly)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 338%11%21%22%19%
Grade 444%25%21%25%44%
Grade 570%37%30%33%45%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade20192022202320242025
Grade 335%26%25%16%48%
Grade 472%20%16%25%39%
Grade 567%21%7%8%40%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in three of students here meet the standard. One in ten clear it by a lot.

ELA36% met or exceeded
Exceeded 12%Met 24%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 41%
Math42% met or exceeded
Exceeded 15%Met 27%Nearly Met 24%Not Met 34%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California elementary schools · average21% exceeded · 43% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2019–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school3914%39%—24.6%0.7%
CA average · Elementary School3921%43%—17.9%1.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope3939
% Exceeded14%21%
% Met+39%43%
Growth——
Absence24.6%17.9%
Suspension0.7%1.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model places it near the 95th percentile of elementary schools.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

California runs its own growth model — it follows individual children in grades 4 through 8 and compares each one against a prediction from their own prior scores. On that measure this school sits well above the middle of California elementary schools in reading and math together. We show it; we don't score it.

— 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 elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: +19 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 95th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.95th pctile · +19 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: +25 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 96th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.96th pctile · +25 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 behind the same group statewide.

At Fletcher Elementary in San Diego, 29.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.6% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Fletcher Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 13.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (39.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 41 students tested.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 39% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 39%, district —, state 43%39%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 34%, district 36%, state 32%34% · −5 vs school
MaleMale: this school 39%, district 50%, state 42%39% · −0 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 33%, district 51%, state 44%33% · −6 vs school

9 of 13 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 9.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +5.6pp.

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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

The people teaching here

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Teaching staff7 teachers
Avg. experience17.7 years
Fully credentialed88%
PrincipalMichelle Radley
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Teacher salary schedule$55,375 – $124,275
Principal salaryUp to $187,294
Superintendent salary$300,404

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Showing up, and staying in class

TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (32.4% vs 19.0%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 24.6%, district 20.2%, state 17.9%24.6% · +6.7pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.7%, district —, state 1.6%0.7% · −0.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–619.0%
TK/K32.4%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

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

It spends $24,972 per student, more than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

$1,577 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: $24,972, CA average $14,491$24,972 · spent at this school
Federal share$1,577 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$21,967 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 63%Instruction support 12%Student services 12%Administration 5%Buildings & maintenance 7%Other 1%

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$15,976 per pupil
2019$14,540 per pupil
2018$14,457 per pupil
2017$11,416 per pupil
2016$11,708 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

The neighborhood it serves

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.

On the state's science test (CAST), 25% 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 Latino44.2% · district 47.0% · CA 56.1%
White11.7% · district 22.9% · CA 19.9%
Asian4.3% · district 8.7% · CA 10.2%
Black25.1% · district 7.5% · CA 4.8%
Other14.7% · district 13.8% · CA 9.0%
Median income$133K · CA $85K
Median home value$866K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+49% · CA 35%
ZIP population33,041
Median age35 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

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What are the alternatives?

Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · elementary schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

Private options →
SchoolTypePerformance bandAdvancedProficient or AdvancedDistanceSelect
Fletcher ElementaryPublicSolid14%39%School being viewed
Mt. Everest AcademyPublicStrong47%85%2.9 mi
Birney ElementaryPublicStrong46%76%2.2 mi
Holmes ElementaryPublicStrong57%86%2.4 mi
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Schools across the K–12 journey

Kearny Digital Media & DesignScope 49estimated path

The road from this school ends at Kearny Digital Media & Design, which sent 5 graduates to UC campuses last fall. That number describes past cohorts — a child starting here today would reach Kearny Digital Media & Design around 2035, and 10 years is a long time for a school to hold still, and by the state's 2023 count 68% of Kearny Digital Media & Design's graduates enrolled in college somewhere, UC or not.

Source: UC

Source: proximity. 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.

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Worth a school visit

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Fletcher Elementary a good elementary school?
Fletcher Elementary has a Scope Score of 39 out of 100, placing it in the 57th percentile of California elementary schools and ranked #2,433 statewide. 13.6% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 7.8 percentage points below the California average of 21.4%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for elementary schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 3-to-5 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 Fletcher Elementary's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 39.2% of students at Fletcher Elementary met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 13.6% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 25.6% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 13.6% 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. 118 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Fletcher Elementary rank in California?
Fletcher Elementary ranks #2,433 among California elementary schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 57th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 3 to grade 5 growth), 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.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Fletcher Elementary?
24.6% of students at Fletcher Elementary are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 17.9%. The suspension rate is 0.7%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. 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 Fletcher Elementary compare to other schools in San Diego?
Fletcher Elementary scores 39/100 (57th percentile) among California elementary schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. Use the schools in San Diego page or the map view to compare all elementary schools nearby.
How does Fletcher Elementary serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Fletcher Elementary in San Diego, 29.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 42.6% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Fletcher Elementary trails its district average for low-income students by 13.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (39.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 41 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.

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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

The 6 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard13.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded39.2%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism24.6%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.7%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)22.2%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+9.2pp-2.9pp—

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

Fletcher Elementary: reading the evidence

Fletcher posts 39% meeting the standard and 13.6% exceeding it, against 43% and 21.4% statewide. The gaps and the bright spots below are the real read.

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

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.

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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.

Fletcher Elementary is ranked #2,433 statewide · #62 of 135 in San Diego Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard13.6%21.4%42%
Met or exceeded39.2%42.7%23%
Chronic absenteeism24.6%17.9%5%
Suspension rate0.7%1.6%5%
EL proficiency (ELPAC)22.2%18.0%5%
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)+9.2pp-2.9ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 21.4% · index 43 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 42.7% · index 47 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 17.9% · index 39 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 7.4pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 1.6% · index 57 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint · ▼ 0.8pp lower vs 2024
EL proficiency (ELPAC)
↑ vs CA 18.0% · index 55 · 50 = CA elementary-school midpoint
Grade gap (G3→G5, different students)
↑ vs CA -2.9pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 3215%14%29%52%19%−24
Grade 41811%33%11%44%44%−0
Grade 52020%25%30%25%45%−3
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 32119%29%19%33%48%+2
Grade 41817%22%28%33%39%−2
Grade 52010%30%25%35%40%+5

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
Schoolwide2015%10%65%10%

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 Disadvantaged4129.3%−13−9
03Nearest elementary 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
Fletcher Elementary ←—3913.6%39.2%+9.2pp—0.7%
Mt. Everest Academy2.9 mi8246.5%85.3%−18.4pp—0.7%
Birney Elementary2.2 mi6945.7%76.2%+14.0pp—2.1%
Holmes Elementary2.4 mi6657.5%85.7%−13.2pp—0.8%
California average—3921.4%42.7%−2.9pp—1.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
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YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20194262#208326.0%54.1%17.8%3.3%+32.0pp
20222018#46647.6%23.4%60.7%2.2%+10.2pp
20232016#47727.0%19.9%40.0%1.7%-4.6pp
20242111#51015.7%21.6%32.0%1.5%+1.8pp
20253957#243313.6%39.2%24.6%0.7%+9.2pp
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
Female20.4%19.2%-1.2pp
Male17.7%31.6%+13.9pp
Asian8.7%——
Black/African American17.6%40.9%+23.3pp
Hispanic/Latino23.8%26.0%+2.2pp
Two or More Races33.3%33.3%+0.0pp
White9.1%0.0%-9.1pp
Students with Disabilities18.2%42.4%+24.2pp
English Learners24.4%10.7%-13.7pp
Homeless77.8%52.5%-25.3pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged24.0%27.2%+3.2pp
All Students19.2%26.3%+7.1pp
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+1935Accelerated+2535Exceptional
English Only+2128not categorised+2328not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged+1723Accelerated+2423Exceptional
Hispanic or Latino+1917Accelerated+2417Exceptional

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. 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=5,721 elementary schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-18

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