Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki: High scores, healthy climate, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.
Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki posts 44.5% exceeding the standard — versus 16.8% 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+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 72 | 45% | 76% | +0.3 | 10.3% | 0.2% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki scores 72 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 95th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “76% proficient” and call it done. Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki deserves a closer read. It sits at the 95th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki's low-income kids hit 86.0% 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 95th-percentile line every tested year since 2019.
Proficiency here is back to its pre-pandemic level — 76% meet the standard, about where the school stood in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 88% | 88% | 82% | 90% | 91% |
| Grade 7 | 91% | 93% | 87% | 84% | 89% |
| Grade 8 | 84% | 84% | 87% | 89% | 89% |
| Grade 11 | 60% | 91% | 96% | 92% | 87% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 64% | 59% | 60% | 59% | 62% |
| Grade 7 | 78% | 61% | 66% | 66% | 62% |
| Grade 8 | 60% | 51% | 55% | 68% | 65% |
| Grade 11 | 40% | 58% | 72% | 63% | 65% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding falls 3.8pp across grades; the floor slips 2.7pp. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki's most underrated number
86.0% 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 5 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 Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki in Los Angeles, 86.0% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki outperforms its district average for low-income students by 45.1 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (60.2% Math proficient); Hispanic students (85.2% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 17.9 percentage points for black students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 243 students tested.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency falls by 9.3pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -0.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 9–12 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 7–8 students (13.4% vs 5.5%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki serves grades 6-12 — students can complete middle and high school here, without a separate middle-to-high transition.
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.
$1,234 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
On the state's science test (CAST), 66% 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 52
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Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 103 | 57% | 34% | 8% | 1% | 91% | +45 |
| Grade 7 | 103 | 50% | 40% | 5% | 6% | 89% | +42 |
| Grade 8 | 131 | 53% | 35% | 11% | 1% | 89% | +42 |
| Grade 11 | 79 | 58% | 29% | 11% | 1% | 87% | +40 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 104 | 38% | 23% | 30% | 9% | 62% | +27 |
| Grade 7 | 103 | 24% | 38% | 31% | 7% | 62% | +28 |
| Grade 8 | 131 | 44% | 21% | 23% | 12% | 65% | +33 |
| Grade 11 | 79 | 34% | 30% | 23% | 13% | 65% | +41 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 210 | 24% | 41% | 32% | 2% |
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 | 243 | 86.0% | +45 | +48 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 122 | 85.2% | +44 | +46 |
| White | 121 | 97.5% | +29 | +36 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girls Academic Leadership Academy, Dr. Michelle Ki ← | — | 72 | 44.5% | 76.3% | +0.3 | 0.2% |
| Magnolia Science Academy 6 | 2.8 mi | 58 | 22.9% | 48.2% | +13.4 | 3.7% |
| Rise Kohyang Middle | 2.2 mi | 49 | 18.5% | 40.9% | +3.2 | 0.5% |
| Libertas College Preparatory Charter | 3 mi | 49 | 14.8% | 40.4% | +4.6 | 0.2% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 69 | 94 | #123 | 47.2% | 77.3% | 14.5% | 0.1% | -4.1pp |
| 2022 | 65 | 92 | #179 | 39.4% | 72.7% | 15.5% | 0.0% | -5.6pp |
| 2023 | 71 | 93 | #146 | 40.4% | 72.9% | 14.4% | 0.0% | -0.2pp |
| 2024 | 72 | 94 | #128 | 43.6% | 76.3% | 13.1% | 0.2% | +4.1pp |
| 2025 | 72 | 95 | #118 | 44.5% | 76.3% | 10.3% | 0.2% | +0.3pp |
- — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 14.5% | 9.9% | -4.6pp |
| Asian | 2.6% | 9.2% | +6.6pp |
| Black/African American | 17.0% | 8.6% | -8.4pp |
| White | 7.7% | 5.0% | -2.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 19.6% | 12.6% | -7.0pp |
| Two or More Races | 20.5% | 6.7% | -13.8pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 13.3% | 9.3% | -4.0pp |
| English Learners | 45.5% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 20.2% | 11.4% | -8.8pp |
| All Students | 14.5% | 9.9% | -4.6pp |
| Filipino | — | 6.7% | — |
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