Golden Oak Community: Most kids here clear the bar, year after year. The question is what happens after that.
Golden Oak Community posts 59% meeting the standard, and 30.5% 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 | 60 | 31% | 59% | +4.0 | 6.1% | 2.6% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Golden Oak Community scores 60 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 82nd percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “59% proficient” and call it done. Golden Oak Community deserves a closer read. The school sits in Santa Clarita, where one in three students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Golden Oak Community's low-income kids hit 58.8% 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 82nd percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 59% meet the standard today, versus 63% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 72% | 62% | 51% | 40% | 52% |
| Grade 4 | 65% | 62% | 68% | 70% | 65% |
| Grade 5 | 68% | 55% | 59% | 77% | 74% |
| Grade 6 | 72% | 71% | 63% | 64% | 78% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 63% | 73% | 59% | 45% | 66% |
| Grade 4 | 57% | 44% | 70% | 57% | 46% |
| Grade 5 | 56% | 32% | 36% | 67% | 52% |
| Grade 6 | 53% | 63% | 36% | 45% | 73% |
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 rises 18.4pp across grades; the floor rises 21.9pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Golden Oak Community's most underrated number
58.8% 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 6 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 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 Golden Oak Community in Santa Clarita, 58.8% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Golden Oak Community outperforms its district average for low-income students by 13.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (48.0% Math proficient); Hispanic students (59.6% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 27.5 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 102 students tested.
5 of 15 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.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 33.9pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +5.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
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.
$105 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 56% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 52
Nearby High Schools
2 within ~3 mi · avg 57
Private alternatives nearby
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 3 | 67 | 25% | 27% | 24% | 24% | 52% | +9 |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 33% | 32% | 21% | 14% | 65% | +20 |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 44% | 30% | 12% | 13% | 74% | +26 |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 34% | 44% | 17% | 5% | 78% | +32 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 67 | 24% | 42% | 21% | 13% | 66% | +20 |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 25% | 21% | 38% | 16% | 46% | +4 |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 31% | 20% | 30% | 18% | 52% | +16 |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 34% | 39% | 16% | 11% | 73% | +38 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 89 | 21% | 35% | 42% | 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 | 102 | 58.8% | +13 | +21 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 104 | 59.6% | +15 | +21 |
| White | 64 | 70.3% | +5 | +9 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Oak Community ← | — | 60 | 30.5% | 59.1% | +4.0 | 2.6% |
| Cedarcreek Elementary | 2.7 mi | 57 | 26.4% | 51.6% | −16.4 | 0.9% |
| Rio Vista Elementary | 3.2 mi | 50 | 22.7% | 49.4% | +1.5 | 1.0% |
| Canyon Springs Community Elementary | 2 mi | 50 | 15.8% | 36.6% | +2.9 | 1.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 57 | 77 | #1254 | 37.8% | 63.3% | 4.4% | 0.0% | -5.7pp |
| 2022 | 39 | 57 | #2447 | 25.1% | 54.5% | 16.4% | 0.7% | -24.3pp |
| 2023 | 51 | 74 | #1470 | 35.1% | 57.3% | 14.5% | 1.1% | -7.6pp |
| 2024 | 58 | 80 | #1153 | 31.4% | 59.2% | 9.8% | 0.8% | +29.4pp |
| 2025 | 60 | 82 | #1013 | 30.5% | 59.1% | 6.1% | 2.6% | +4.0pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 4.2% | 3.9% | -0.3pp |
| Male | 4.4% | 6.9% | +2.5pp |
| Asian | 0.0% | 0.0% | +0.0pp |
| Black/African American | 0.0% | 13.6% | +13.6pp |
| White | 0.0% | 3.4% | +3.4pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.7% | 6.3% | +0.6pp |
| Two or More Races | 4.0% | 3.6% | -0.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 4.3% | 6.0% | +1.7pp |
| English Learners | 2.3% | 10.7% | +8.4pp |
| Homeless | 0.0% | — | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 4.5% | 9.5% | +5.0pp |
| All Students | 4.3% | 5.3% | +1.0pp |
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