Glen Alta Elementary: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Glen Alta posts 50% meeting the standard, and 12.5% going well past it. Most kids here keep up. Fewer get pushed further. Ask the school what it does for a child who already finds the work easy.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 40 | 13% | 50% | — | 23.2% | 1.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Glen Alta Elementary scores 40 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 44th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “50% proficient” and call it done. Glen Alta deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where nearly all students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Glen Alta's low-income kids hit 61.5% 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 stayed near the 44th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 50% of students meet the standard today, above the 33% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 20% | — | 17% | 50% | — |
| Grade 4 | 45% | 56% | — | — | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 38% | 58% | 47% | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 32% | 39% | 50% | 33% | 64% |
| Grade 7 | 43% | — | 59% | 56% | 92% |
| Grade 8 | 50% | 69% | — | 61% | 47% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 40% | — | 25% | 58% | — |
| Grade 4 | 36% | 56% | 18% | — | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 15% | 32% | 35% | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 32% | 39% | 39% | 42% | 55% |
| Grade 7 | 43% | 27% | 41% | 42% | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 44% | 38% | — | 28% | 29% |
Glen Alta's most underrated number
61.5% 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 how the school challenges kids who clear the standard early. The gap between meeting and exceeding is where pacing shows.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- 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 Glen Alta Elementary in Los Angeles, 61.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Glen Alta Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 20.6 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (38.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (51.9% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 14.8 percentage points for low-income students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 52 students tested.
7 of 10 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
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.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (55.0% vs 24.3%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$3,375 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 112 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California elementary school (≈480).
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 35% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 73
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Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 12 | 17% | 33% | 25% | 25% | 50% | +5 |
| Grade 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 11 | 18% | 45% | 27% | 9% | 64% | +17 |
| Grade 7 | 12 | 17% | 75% | 8% | 0% | 92% | +44 |
| Grade 8 | 17 | 18% | 29% | 35% | 18% | 47% | +1 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 4 | 12 | 8% | 42% | 42% | 8% | 50% | +8 |
| Grade 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grade 6 | 11 | 9% | 45% | 18% | 27% | 55% | +20 |
| Grade 7 | 12 | 8% | 17% | 17% | 58% | 25% | −9 |
| Grade 8 | 17 | 18% | 12% | 18% | 53% | 29% | −3 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 26 | 15% | 19% | 54% | 12% |
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 | 52 | 61.5% | +21 | +23 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 27 | 51.9% | +11 | +13 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Alta Elementary ← | — | 40 | 12.5% | 50.0% | — | 1.6% |
| Monterey Hills Elementary | 2.4 mi | 76 | 52.0% | 78.3% | +4.5 | 0.7% |
| Arroyo Vista Elementary | 2.8 mi | 75 | 59.8% | 83.8% | −11.7 | 0.2% |
| Richard Riordan Primary Center | 1.8 mi | 67 | 41.0% | 69.4% | — | 0.6% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 40 | 45 | #3037 | 17.1% | 32.6% | 28.6% | 0.1% | -3.1pp |
| 2022 | 41 | 61 | #2221 | 17.5% | 50.1% | 42.4% | 0.1% | — |
| 2023 | 43 | 59 | #2327 | 9.9% | 28.4% | 31.0% | 0.1% | +20.3pp |
| 2024 | 55 | 77 | #1341 | 29.2% | 54.2% | 20.0% | 0.9% | — |
| 2025 | 40 | 44 | #3243 | 12.5% | 50.0% | 23.2% | 1.6% | — |
- — Growth data isn't available — the state needs matched grades across years to compute it.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 33.7% | 28.6% | -5.1pp |
| Male | 25.0% | 31.1% | +6.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 29.0% | 26.1% | -2.9pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 23.5% | 22.7% | -0.8pp |
| English Learners | 34.3% | 20.0% | -14.3pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 29.9% | 30.8% | +0.9pp |
| All Students | 29.4% | 29.8% | +0.4pp |
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