Grandview, College Preparatory Academy: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
Grandview, College Preparatory Academy sits mid-pack on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 44 | 8% | 29% | +4.3 | 24.6% | 1.6% |
| CA average · Middle School | 43 | 17% | 39% | +1.5 | 18.5% | 3.7% |
Grandview, College Preparatory Academy scores 44 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 56th percentile of 2,238 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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📈 On the Rise — Ask how many years the improvement has held, not just the latest one — one strong cohort and a real turnaround can look identical in a single year of data.
Most rating sites would stop at “29% proficient” and call it done. Grandview, College Preparatory Academy deserves a closer read. The school sits in Valinda, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +4.3pp separates this year's grade 6 from its grade 8. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G6 → 2025 G8 points the same way.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 56th percentile since 2019.
This school hasn't fully recovered from the pandemic: 29% meet the standard today, versus 34% in 2019 — a gap worth asking about on a visit.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 42% | 43% | 28% | 36% | — |
| Grade 4 | 55% | 50% | 40% | 26% | — |
| Grade 5 | 38% | 29% | 47% | 46% | — |
| Grade 6 | 38% | 27% | 14% | 29% | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 41% | 44% | 24% | 22% | 44% |
| Grade 8 | 52% | 39% | 31% | 28% | 33% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 40% | 48% | 40% | 44% | — |
| Grade 4 | 39% | 38% | 56% | 26% | — |
| Grade 5 | 30% | 23% | 19% | 23% | — |
| Grade 6 | 14% | 16% | 5% | 17% | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 24% | 26% | 13% | 18% | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 37% | 18% | 14% | 14% | 21% |
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 1.7pp across grades; the proficiency floor barely moves. The state average falls 0.5pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask how the school follows up when a student starts missing days — chronic absence often starts outside the classroom, not inside it.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- 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 Grandview, College Preparatory Academy in Valinda, 34.6% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 45.0% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Grandview, College Preparatory Academy trails its district average for low-income students by 10.4 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (19.9% Math proficient); Hispanic students (34.0% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 33.8 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 315 students tested.
6 of 14 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 0.9pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: +7.7pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
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
$451 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 388 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).
On the state's science test (CAST), 20% 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 Middle Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 42
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 67
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 6 | 121 | 7% | 24% | 33% | 36% | 31% | −15 |
| Grade 7 | 104 | 12% | 33% | 29% | 27% | 44% | −3 |
| Grade 8 | 140 | 6% | 27% | 33% | 34% | 33% | −13 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 121 | 6% | 8% | 34% | 52% | 14% | −21 |
| Grade 7 | 104 | 11% | 18% | 31% | 40% | 29% | −5 |
| Grade 8 | 141 | 7% | 14% | 35% | 44% | 21% | −11 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 141 | 2% | 18% | 68% | 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 | 315 | 34.6% | −10 | −4 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 318 | 34.0% | −8 | −5 |
| Students with Disabilities | 57 | 24.6% | +7 | +8 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grandview, College Preparatory Academy ← | — | 44 | 8.0% | 28.8% | +4.3 | 1.6% |
| Hollencrest Middle | 1.9 mi | 46 | 20.3% | 43.0% | −3.7 | 0.5% |
| Sierra Vista Middle | 1.5 mi | 42 | 12.7% | 30.9% | +9.2 | 9.5% |
| Sparks Middle | 2 mi | 38 | 8.3% | 30.0% | +6.9 | 3.9% |
| California average | — | 43 | 16.8% | 39.3% | +1.5 | 3.7% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 39 | 52 | #964 | 7.8% | 34.3% | 8.0% | 6.7% | +18.5pp |
| 2022 | 32 | 38 | #1349 | 5.9% | 28.5% | 44.8% | 3.1% | +7.1pp |
| 2023 | 38 | 44 | #1229 | 5.7% | 16.7% | 37.0% | 4.4% | +13.0pp |
| 2024 | 21 | 11 | #1964 | 6.2% | 21.3% | 24.5% | 2.4% | -2.3pp |
| 2025 | 44 | 56 | #979 | 8.0% | 28.8% | 24.6% | 1.6% | +4.3pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 6.8% | 28.9% | +22.1pp |
| Male | 9.1% | 21.0% | +11.9pp |
| Asian | 5.6% | 18.2% | +12.6pp |
| White | 0.0% | 10.5% | +10.5pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 8.4% | 25.6% | +17.2pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 12.3% | 33.8% | +21.5pp |
| English Learners | 11.1% | 36.0% | +24.9pp |
| Foster Youth | 0.0% | — | — |
| Homeless | 14.3% | 38.8% | +24.5pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 8.1% | 25.3% | +17.2pp |
| All Students | 8.0% | 24.8% | +16.8pp |
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