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Goleta Valley Junior High — Rating & test scores

6100 Stow Canyon Road, Goleta · 731 students · Grades 7–8

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Scope Score 82

StrongScope Score · 80th percentile. Higher than 80 in 100 of the 2,529 California public middle schools we score.

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

Above California in English, well above in math, grades 7 and 8, spring 2026: 57% and 53% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 50% and 37%.

Source for this line
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 7 and 8: 705 in English, 717 in math
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 7 and 8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 838,600 in English and 838,896 in math tested).

Overview

Is Goleta Valley a good middle school?

Strong. Goleta Valley is higher than most California middle schools on test results and attendance. Goleta Valley is lower than most on progress in English. Goleta Valley is in the middle on progress in math.

Test results, spring 2026

English, Proficient or Advanced7057%
Math, Proficient or Advanced8253%
English, Advanced7423%
Math, Advanced8433%

Progress in a year, 2025

English4−21 pts
Math50−1 pts

Showing up, 2025–26

Attendance5714 in 100
Goleta Valley’s place among California middle schools, out of 100Santa Barbara Unified’s other middle schoolsBar colour, from the lowest quarter of schools to the highest

One more thing to know

In grades 7 and 8, spring 2026, 23% of students tested in English (reading and writing) and 33% in math scored Advanced, against 19% and 21% across California. Advanced is the top of the state’s four levels.

Each bar is Goleta Valley’s place among 2,529 California public middle 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 6–8. 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
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026. All students tested in grades 7 and 8: 705 in English, 717 in math. California: CDE’s grade 7 and 8 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 838,600 in English and 838,896 in math tested).

In its own words

What does Goleta Valley say about itself?

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

Open gvjh.sbunified.org (opens in a new tab)

Progress

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

In English, lower. In math, about the same. In 2025, students here in grades 7 and 8 scored 21 points lower in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Minimal. In math, they scored 1 point lower, which the state calls Average.

English

−21

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

By student group · students counted

Hispanic or Latino328−29 points
Low-income308−31 points
White238−15 points
English learners163−33 points
Students with disabilities79−33 points

Math

−1

point 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

Hispanic or Latino334−14 points
Low-income314−16 points
White239+8 points
English learners167−18 points
Students with disabilities80−21 points

Grades 7 and 8, 2025, 666 students in English, 673 in math with scores in both years. 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 21 points below that expected score, and in math 1 point below 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.

Nearby

How does it compare with schools nearby?

1 of the 1 middle schools nearby have a higher Scope Score than Goleta Valley. Each school is compared with every California middle school.

Scope Score

2 middle schools within 4.5 miles, highest score first. Under each name is how the school takes students.

  1. La ColinaNeighborhood school · by addressScope Score 8892nd
  2. Goleta ValleyScope Score 8280th
Santa Barbara Unified

Scope Score from California Department of Education state tests (CAASPP), spring 2026, grades 6–8. Distance is a straight line from this campus and is not an attendance boundary. See these schools on the map

Schools like it

How does Goleta Valley compare with schools like it?

Goleta Valley’s Scope Score is 82. 319 California middle schools, counting Goleta Valley, have a similar share of students from low-income families. Their typical score is 78. Goleta Valley’s result is higher than 239 of them.

The five schools with the highest results of the 319

  1. Students from low-income families: 44%

    Elkhorn

    Stockton

    Scope Score 98Strong · 99th percentile

  2. Students from low-income families: 43%

    Scope Score 93Strong · 97th percentile

  3. Students from low-income families: 48%

    Scope Score 92Strong · 97th percentile

  4. Students from low-income families: 47%

    Scope Score 92Strong · 96th percentile

  5. Students from low-income families: 42%

    Scope Score 91Strong · 96th percentile

319 California public middle 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 middle 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 Goleta Valley’s share. The count includes Goleta Valley. 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 55% to 57% and math from 49% to 53%.

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

Grades 7 and 8. Point at a year, tap it or use the arrow keys to read its figures.

English

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202657%53%57%Goleta ValleyThis school55%Santa Barbara UnifiedDistrict50%CaliforniaCalifornia

Math

No comparable testsNo tests25%50%75%2017201820192022202320242025202650%49%53%Goleta ValleyThis school49%Santa Barbara UnifiedDistrict37%CaliforniaCalifornia

The lines break where a year has no comparable state test results. Each spring tests a different group of students. Santa Barbara Unified’s line combines its 4 middle schools we score (our calculation). Faint lines are its other schools. 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. Santa Barbara Unified’s figure weights each school by the students it tested.

English, grades 7 and 8: share at the top two levels
SpringGoleta ValleySanta Barbara UnifiedCaliforniaTested here
201753%57%49%742
201860%59%50%776
201962%57%50%745
202257%50%48%681
202356%50%47%690
202454%51%47%712
202555%52%49%699
202657%55%50%705
Math, grades 7 and 8: share at the top two levels
SpringGoleta ValleySanta Barbara UnifiedCaliforniaTested here
201749%50%37%741
201851%49%37%773
201954%50%37%747
202249%39%31%676
202350%41%32%685
202449%43%33%709
202549%46%35%712
202653%49%37%717

Tests

How did students here do on state tests?

Above California in English; well above it in math.

English

57%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

21223423
Santa Barbara Unified55%California50%

Math

53%

scored Proficient or Advanced.

24232033
Santa Barbara Unified49%California37%
MinimalDeveloping levelProficientAdvanced

In grades 7 and 8, spring 2026, 57% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 53% in math, against 50% and 37% across California.

The state published these results on October 15, 2026. What changed across California. Spring 2026, grades 7 and 8 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).

Results for each grade, spring 2026

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 7 and 8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced58%56%
Advanced24%22%
Proficient34%34%
Developing level20%23%
Minimal22%21%
Tested376329
California51%49%
Difference+7+7

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 7 and 8: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 7Grade 8
Proficient or Advanced56%50%
Advanced31%36%
Proficient25%14%
Developing level23%22%
Minimal21%28%
Tested382335
California38%36%
Difference+18+14

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 7 and 8 · This school23%34%22%21%705
English, grades 7 and 8 · California19%31%23%27%838,600
English, grades 7 and 8 · Santa Barbara Unified21%34%22%23%2,361
Math, grades 7 and 8 · This school33%20%23%24%717
Math, grades 7 and 8 · California21%16%23%40%838,896
Math, grades 7 and 8 · Santa Barbara Unified31%18%21%30%2,376

Spring 2026, grades 7 and 8 combined: 705 tested in English, 717 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?

Hispanic or Latino students are the largest group here, at 46% of students. 103 of 742 students missed 10% or more of school days.

Missing school, 2025–26

14in 100

students were chronically absent. That means they missed 10% or more of school days (103 of 742 students).

At the average Santa Barbara Unified middle school: 17 in 100. At the average California middle school: 18 in 100.

Suspensions: 4.9% of students were suspended at least once (37 of 749). Average California middle school 3.7%.

Students, 2024–25

731

students in grades 7–8.

Hispanic or Latino 46%White 38%Two or more races 7%Asian 6%Not reported 2%

Family income

46%

of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 333 of 731. California: 63%.

Teachers, 2024–25

39

teachers, with 18 years of experience on average.

0% were in their first year.

83% of teaching positions had the right credential, 2021–22.

English learners

44%

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 (14 of 32 students).

Santa Barbara Unified: 50%. 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.

Full student mix, 2025–26
StudentsHere
Hispanic or Latino46%
White38%
Two or more races7%
Asian6%
Not reported2%
Black or African American—
Filipino—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
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: 31.2 of 37.6 full-time teaching positions. It counts positions, not individual teachers.

Student groups

How do kids like mine do here?

Seven student groups at Goleta Valley have test results. Each bar compares one group with the same group across California.

This schoolThe same group, California
  • Asian41 tested85%California 76%
  • Two or more races62 tested79%California 63%
  • White268 tested73%California 62%
  • Low-income327 tested37%California 39%
  • Hispanic or Latino326 tested37%California 40%
  • Students with disabilities79 tested14%California 14%
  • English learners35 tested6%California 7%

Share who scored Proficient or Advanced, grades 7 and 8 English, 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 7 and 8 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Santa Barbara Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 327 tested in English, 331 in math
English37%−239%−239%
Math31%031%+526%
Hispanic or Latino · 326 tested in English, 332 in math
English37%−239%−340%
Math33%+231%+825%
White · 268 tested in English, 270 in math
English73%−477%+1162%
Math69%−675%+1950%
Two or more races · 62 tested in English, 63 in math
English79%+673%+1663%
Math71%+368%+2150%
Asian · 41 tested
English85%−186%+976%
Math85%−388%+1471%
English learners · 35 tested
English6%+15%−17%
Math14%+86%+77%
Students with disabilities · 79 tested in English, 82 in math
English14%−115%014%
Math16%+412%+79%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Santa Barbara Unified, and across California. No group that is behind across California does 10 or more points better here.

Military-family students, 31 tested in English and 32 in math: no rate for grade 7 in our records, and fewer than 30 tested in the grades with one. No published rate here for Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander and homeless students 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 Goleta Valley. 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.

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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.

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Money

Where does the money go?

$17,257 for each student in 2024–25. California’s middle schools spent $19,269 for each student. Santa Barbara Unified’s plan for 2026–27 covers $26 million.

$17,257

for each student at this school, 2024–25
Spent at the school
$10,574
The school’s share of district office costs
$6,683
Of the total, from federal funds
$763
  • Goleta Valley$17,257
  • Santa Barbara Unified middle schools$18,334
  • California middle schools$19,269

The district and California figures combine their middle schools, weighted by enrollment (our calculation, 1,241 California schools). Spending does not show how well money is used. Source: California Department of Education, per-school spending report, 2024–25. Funding records ↓

Santa Barbara Unified’s yearly plan

$26million

in the district’s plan for 2026–27

$22million

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 4 goals. The district’s page lists each one. The plan covers $26 million of $263 million in total budgeted spending. Source: Santa Barbara Unified Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), 2026–27. Read the district’s plan →

The neighborhood

What is the area around Goleta Valley like?

These figures are for everyone who lives in ZIP code 93117. They are not figures for the families at Goleta Valley.

Typical household income in a year

$90,037

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 93117.

Typical home value
$1,082,400
People who live in this ZIP code
52,934
Typical age
23.5 years
Adults 25 and older with a four-year college degree
51%

Questions to ask

What should I ask, and when?

Bring these 5 questions to Goleta Valley. Confirm anything about applying with the school itself.

On a tour

  1. What changes for a student who falls behind in English?21 points lower in English than California students who had the same score the year before, grades 7 and 8, 2025 (666 students)
  2. Which math courses can students take, and how are placements decided?
  3. Which electives and high-school transition supports are available?

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 Goleta Valley, and how do I get in?

Ask Santa Barbara Unified which school serves your address. Next comes Dos Pueblos Senior High.

  1. Elementary
    Adams Elementary
    Scope Score 75Solid · 50th percentile · 2026Nearby same-district option · distance estimate, not a confirmed feeder
  2. Middle · this school
    Goleta Valley Junior High
    Grades 7–8Scope Score 82Strong · 80th percentile
  3. High · assigned
    Dos Pueblos Senior High
    Scope Score 84Strong · 83rd percentile · 2025

Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level.

From the district’s 2024 attendance boundaries, plus nearby estimates. A boundary doesn’t guarantee a place. Transfers, permits, magnets and other programs can change the path. Check your child’s address and current assignment with the district. Explore schools on the map

Not a next step: the school sharing this address. Santa Barbara Charter (68th percentile, Solid, among elementary schools, 2026) has the same street address in the state’s school directory.

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Elementary links

  • Adams Elementary

    Nearby same-district option · distance estimate, not a confirmed feeder

    Scope Score 75 · Solid · 50th percentile · elementary · 2026

  • Peabody Charter

    Nearby same-district option · distance estimate, not a confirmed feeder · Charter school. Check how it admits students.

    Scope Score 82 · Strong · 79th percentile · elementary · 2026

Middle-school links

  • Santa Barbara Charter

    Nearby same-district option · distance estimate, not a confirmed feeder · Charter school. Check how it admits students.

High-school links

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.

Where the path ends: Dos Pueblos Senior High
Dos Pueblos Senior HighScope Score 84 · Strong · 83rd percentile · 2025district-published assignment

The road from this school ends at Dos Pueblos Senior High. UC records 77 enrollees from Dos Pueblos Senior High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 19 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. A child starting here today would reach Dos Pueblos Senior High around 2028, and a school can change a lot in 2 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 87% of the students who finished high school at Dos Pueblos Senior High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

77 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 19 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on Dos Pueblos Senior High's page
Source: UC & College Board AP Course Ledger

Where it is

Where is Goleta Valley?

Address
6100 Stow Canyon Road, Goleta 93117Get directions (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Administrator
Clanci Chiu-MerrittAs the state’s school directory lists it, last updated February 9, 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?

Ask Santa Barbara Unified which school serves your address. See the details ↓

Is Goleta Valley a good middle school?

Goleta Valley Junior High has a Scope Score of 82. It scored higher than 80 in 100 of California’s 2,529 scored public middle schools (Strong, 80th percentile, spring 2026). See the details ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 14 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 17 in 100 at the average Santa Barbara Unified middle school. 4.9% of students (37 of 749) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 3.7% at the average California middle school. See the details ↓

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

In English, lower. In math, about the same. In 2025, students here in grades 7 and 8 scored 21 points lower in English than California students who had the same score the year before. The state calls that Minimal. In math, they scored 1 point lower, which the state calls Average.

  • Included in this measure: 666 students in English, 673 in math

See the details ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 37% of low-income students in grades 7 and 8 at Goleta Valley Junior High scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 39% for the same group across California. See the details ↓

Where does it lead?

By the district’s published 2024 attendance boundaries, Goleta Valley Junior High is zoned to Dos Pueblos Senior High. Boundaries change, are approximate at the edges and don’t guarantee placement, so confirm your address with the district.

  • Dos Pueblos Senior High: Scope Score 84, Strong, 83rd percentile among California’s regular public and charter high schools, 2025 results

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 #499 of 2,529 California middle schools we score · #2 of 5 in Santa Barbara Unified
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math28%6242%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math55%6223%
Chronically absent14 in 100565%
Suspension rate4.9% (37 of 749)465%
English learners: top level25%545%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California middle 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
2025–268280#499California middle schools · 2,529 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 absenceSuspension
2018–1911 in 1009.3% (75 of 809)
2021–22not on filenot on file
2022–23not on filenot on file
2023–2414 in 1009.0% (68 of 755)
2024–2516 in 1008.1% (60 of 745)
2025–2614 in 1004.9% (37 of 749)

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

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 · English70523%57%
2026 · Math71733%53%
2025 · English69922%55%
2025 · Math71232%49%
2024 · English71223%54%
2024 · Math70929%49%
2023 · English69022%56%
2023 · Math68532%50%
2022 · English68122%57%
2022 · Math67630%49%
2019 · English74528%62%
2019 · Math74737%54%
2018 · English77624%60%
2018 · Math77332%51%
2017 · English74220%53%
2017 · Math74129%49%

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 6 · English0—
2025 · Grade 7 · English33461%
2025 · Grade 8 · English36549%
2025 · Grade 6 · Math0—
2025 · Grade 7 · Math34156%
2025 · Grade 8 · Math37142%
2024 · Grade 7 · English37055%
2024 · Grade 8 · English34252%
2024 · Grade 7 · Math36750%
2024 · Grade 8 · Math34248%
2023 · Grade 7 · English34954%
2023 · Grade 8 · English34157%
2023 · Grade 7 · Math34950%
2023 · Grade 8 · Math33650%
2022 · Grade 7 · English32961%
2022 · Grade 8 · English35253%
2022 · Grade 7 · Math32856%
2022 · Grade 8 · Math34843%
2019 · Grade 7 · English37163%
2019 · Grade 8 · English37461%
2019 · Grade 7 · Math37359%
2019 · Grade 8 · Math37449%
2018 · Grade 7 · English39062%
2018 · Grade 8 · English38659%
2018 · Grade 7 · Math39056%
2018 · Grade 8 · Math38346%
2017 · Grade 7 · English37756%
2017 · Grade 8 · English36550%
2017 · Grade 7 · Math37754%
2017 · Grade 8 · Math36444%

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
Schoolwide32822%23%45%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-income32737%−2−2
Hispanic or Latino32637%−2−3
White26873%−4+11
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−21666Minimal−1673Average
English-only students−20441not categorized+3443not categorized
Hispanic or Latino−29328Minimal−14334Moderate
Low-income−31308Minimal−16314Moderate
White−15238Moderate+8239Accelerated
English learners−33163Minimal−18167Moderate
Recently reclassified as fluent in English−31142not categorized−20146not categorized
Students with disabilities−3379Minimal−2180Minimal
Two or more races−1650Moderate+1350Accelerated
Asian−1039Moderate+2439Exceptional
Long-term English learners (grades 6–8 only)−3524Minimal−724Moderate
English learners only−5121not categorized−521not categorized
Homeless−3214Minimal−2615Minimal

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. Long-term English learner counts cover grades 6–8 only (CDE’s rule), so that row is not comparable to the All students row. 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; here that is grades 7 and 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−21 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 7 and 8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

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

All students, grades 7 and 8

666 students

CDE growth category: Minimal

California growth model, English: −21 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Minimal, against SchoolScope's −2-point median for California middle school records.

State model · math−1 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 7 and 8

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

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

All students, grades 7 and 8

673 students

CDE growth category: Average

California growth model, math: −1 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Average, against SchoolScope's −3-point median for California middle 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 middle school records, the median English estimate is −2 and the middle half fall between −10 and +5 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; here that is grades 7 and 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 · 16 in 100 → 2025–26 · 14 in 100 · −2 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 8.1% (60 of 745) → 2025–26 · 4.9% (37 of 749) · −3.2 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female7 in 10013 in 100+6 in 100
Male14 in 10014 in 1000 in 100
Asian2 of 493 of 43—
Hispanic or Latino15 in 10016 in 100+1 in 100
Two or more races3 of 416 of 53—
White8 in 10012 in 100+4 in 100
Students with disabilities22 in 10027 in 100+5 in 100
English learners17 of 916 of 37—
Homeless13 of 60——
Low-income18 in 10018 in 1000 in 100
All students11 in 10014 in 100+3 in 100

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$14,447 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 13,188 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$510 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 731

Central federal expenditures attributed here$253 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 731

District current expense · FY 2024–25$21,939 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 56%Instruction support 15%Student services 12%Administration 6%Buildings & maintenance 10%Other 1%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$135,008,41655.95%56%
Instruction support$35,369,38014.66%15%
Student services$28,490,70911.81%12%
Administration$15,394,4586.38%6%
Buildings & maintenance$25,228,43310.46%10%
Other$1,806,6190.75%1%
Total$241,298,016100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $241,298,016 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$14,447 per pupil
2020$13,462 per pupil
2019$13,495 per pupil
2018$11,638 per pupil
2017$10,981 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

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 93117 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 93117 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$90,037
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)51%
ZIP-area population52,934
Median age23.5 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 93117 →

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Data sources: public data sources, including the California Department of Education · state tests (CAASPP) 2025–26 · Scope Score from 2025–26 results, compared across 2,529 middle schools · attendance and suspensions by student group from 2018–19 and 2025–26 · district finance for the year each row names · Census survey (ACS) 2020–2024 · Data updated October 15, 2026

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