Gould Educational CenterPublicMadera, CAGrades TK-12351 students
Gould Educational Center: A special education center. No Scope Score publishes here.
A Scope Score ranks schools a family can choose between. At Gould Educational Center, students are placed here by an IEP team, not by address and not by lottery — so a comparative rank would measure something a family's choice never entered. We show what California reports and hold the rank.
special education center
no score · no band · no rank — enrollment assigned, not chosen
351 students · placed by an IEP team
SchoolScope has no scored record for this school, so there is nothing here to rank either way. Why we withhold a score →
Gould Educational Center is a special education center in Madera, California. SchoolScope publishes no Scope Score, performance band, archetype or ranking for schools where enrollment is assigned rather than chosen.
SchoolScope holds no scored record for Gould Educational Center this year — no Scope Score, band or rank — so there is no picture to draw beyond the figures on this page.
If a placement here is part of a child's IEP, this page is background, not the decision — the IEP team meeting is where fit actually gets decided.
- Ask how this placement was determined, and what the annual IEP review looks at.
- Ask what related services — speech, occupational therapy, counseling — are provided on site.
- Ask how and when a return to a less-restrictive setting gets reconsidered.
About 8 students for every teacher here.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
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Pay is set by the district, not the school.
It spends $55,878 per student, more than the California average.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
$14,028 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
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Two-thirds of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.
Context — never part of the Scope Score
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 8% 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.
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California's own growth model places it near the 5th 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 below 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.
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