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Green Valley Independent Study

Yucaipa, CA · Grades K-8 · 77 students · Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified

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20% of tested students are Proficient or Advanced in English and 17% in math. Explore the evidence alongside the opportunities your child would use.

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Math

17%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

English

20%

Grades 6 & 8 · Proficient or Advanced

Students

77

Total enrollment

Chronic absence

28%

Students absent 10% or more of school days

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Academic performance

What do the results tell us?

2025 results · Grades 6 & 8 · weighted by students tested within each subject.

Proficient or Advanced combines Levels 3 and 4, formerly Standard Met and Standard Exceeded. California changed the names for 2025–26; the cut scores did not. About the labels →

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0%25%50%75%100%2022: 18%2023: 20%2024: 15%2025: 17%2022: 23%2023: 23%2024: 18%2025: 20%201920222023202420250%25%50%75%100%2022: 18%2023: 20%2024: 15%2025: 17%2022: 23%2023: 23%2024: 18%2025: 20%20192022202320242025
● Math┄ English

Gaps in the lines mark years without annual results.

Exact annual results
YearMathEnglish
2019
202218%23%
202320%23%
202415%18%
202517%20%

Each year describes that year’s tested students. Changes between years do not follow the same children over time. Cohort-growth evidence, when available, is labeled separately below.

Annual results and the full academic record
Is it getting better · CAASPP 2022 to 2025

Slipped from the 34th to the 10th percentile since 2022.

Most rating sites would stop at “19% proficient” and call it done. Green Valley Independent Study deserves a closer read. Three in four of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch (California: 64%) — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.

Test scores are one lens, and at this school they're a rough one right now. The sections below show the fuller picture — including the parts that are working.

78 tested · 3 of 3 grades published · no cohort tracked

Green Valley Independent Study scores 19 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 10th percentile of 2,177 California middle schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).

Percentile among 2,177 middle schools statewide
Year detailsYear2022 · 34th percentile · Scope Score 25 of 1002023 · 28th percentile · Scope Score 22 of 1002024 · 14th percentile · Scope Score 21 of 1002025 · 10th percentile · Scope Score 19 of 100
ELAYellow(Increased)MathRed(Declined)
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ELA — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 629%15%21%12%
Grade 737%41%14%28%
Grade 818%32%16%25%
Math — % met or exceeded, by grade
Grade2022202320242025
Grade 631%8%21%12%
Grade 721%41%9%17%
Grade 86%32%12%21%
Where students land · CAASPP 2024–25

One in five of students here meet the standard. 3% clear it by a lot.

ELA24% met or exceeded
Exceeded 1%Met 23%Nearly Met 29%Not Met 46%
Math19% met or exceeded
Exceeded 5%Met 14%Nearly Met 12%Not Met 69%
Exceeded Met Nearly Met Not Met
California middle schools · average17% exceeded · 40% met or exceeded
This school against the California average
2022–2025 trend · CDE CAASPP
Scope% Exceeded% Met+GrowthAbsenceSuspension
This school193%19%28.3%0.7%
CA average · Middle School3917%40%18.1%3.6%
This schoolCA avg
Scope1939
% Exceeded3%17%
% Met+19%40%
Growth
Absence28.3%18.1%
Suspension0.7%3.6%
California’s growth results and student groups
State growth model · CDE growth model 2024–25

California's own growth model splits here — the 19th percentile in reading against the 48th in math, among middle 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 a little below the middle of California middle schools in reading, and the 48th in math. 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 middle school lands at −1 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −8 and +6 — 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.

California's growth model, ranked against the schools it scores
State model · readingmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, reading: −9 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 19th percentile of 7,519 reported schools.19th pctile · −9 pts
State model · mathmatched students, grades 4-8California growth model, math: 0 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, 48th percentile of 7,518 reported schools.48th pctile · 0 pts
this school| the tick is the middle of the California field

Students & opportunity

Who shares in the school’s results?

Who it works for · CAASPP 2024–25

Low-income students here meet the ELA standard behind the same group statewide.

At Green Valley Independent Study in Yucaipa, 16.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Green Valley Independent Study trails its district average for low-income students by 17.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (12.5% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 48 students tested.

Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 22 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.

Met or exceeded · reading and math combined
All students at this school: 19% met or exceeded
All StudentsAll Students: this school 19%, district —, state 40%19%
Socioeconomically DisadvantagedSocioeconomically Disadvantaged: this school 15%, district 29%, state 32%15% · −5 vs school
Hispanic/LatinoHispanic/Latino: this school 13%, district 30%, state 32%13% · −7 vs school
FemaleFemale: this school 12%, district 38%, state 44%12% · −8 vs school
MaleMale: this school 36%, district 35%, state 42%36% · +17 vs school

6 of 11 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.

this school district, same group California, same group
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Student-group results by grade

Results compare different grade groups in the same year, relative to the lowest tested grade. They do not track the same children over time. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.

Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 5.1pp from grade 6 to grade 8 at this school. District average: -2.4pp.

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The state's growth model, by student group

California follows these children individually and predicts each one's score from their own prior year. Each row is read against the same group at a typical California middle school — not against zero, and not against this school's all-students figure, because the state's expectation already differs by group.

Reading
English Only35 studentsEnglish Only, reading: −10 scale-score points versus expectation, against 0 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 35 students.−10 pts · −10 vs typical
Low-income students32 studentsLow-income students, reading: −11 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 32 students.−11 pts · −8 vs typical
Math
English Only35 studentsEnglish Only, math: +6 scale-score points versus expectation, against −3 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 35 students.+6 pts · +9 vs typical
Low-income students32 studentsLow-income students, math: −3 scale-score points versus expectation, against −5 for the same group at a typical California middle school, 32 students.−3 pts · +2 vs typical
this school typical California middle school, same group| the centre tick is 0 = as predicted

— 2 more groups are reported here with between 11 and 29 students. We hold those back on purpose: at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own, and a quarter of such groups land past the state's top or bottom cut point by chance alone. They are listed with their student counts in the data appendix. — A group not listed at all had fewer than 11 students with a growth score, so California published nothing for it here. That is a privacy protection, not a judgment about those students. — Context only. None of this enters the Scope Score.

The daily experience

What is it like to be a student here?

Students per teacher

Student–teacher ratio is a schoolwide staffing measure, not an average class size.

The people teaching · CDE staffing 2024–25

About 39 students for every teacher here.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Students per teacher39 · district 24
Teaching staff3 teachers
Avg. experience15.3 years
Fully credentialed69%
PrincipalFrank Tucci
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Teacher salary schedule$61,555 – $132,067
Principal salary$169,647 – $191,385
Superintendent salary$284,026

Pay is set by the district, not the school.

Attendance & discipline · 2024–25

Kids here miss more school, and get suspended less, than the state average.

28.3% of students miss a month or more of school, versus 18.1% statewide. High absence often tracks community stress — the data can't say why.

Chronic absenteeismChronic absenteeism: this school 28.3%, district 20.7%, state 18.1%28.3% · +10.2pp vs state
Suspension rateSuspension rate: this school 0.7%, district —, state 3.6%0.7% · −2.9pp vs state
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
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Chronic absenteeism by grade band
Grades 4–630.8%
Grades 7–836.7%

Resources & neighborhood

What sits behind the school experience?

Explore school spending and the district budget
What gets spent · FY 2024–25

It spends $9,517 per student, less than the California average.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

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.

$53 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.

Per-pupil spendingPer-pupil spending: $9,517, CA average $14,491$9,517 · spent at this school
Federal share$53 per student
District current expense · FY 2024–25$18,474 per student
This schoolDistrictCalifornia
Where the district's dollars go · FY 2024–25 · CDE SACS
Instruction 61%Instruction support 10%Student services 12%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 9%Other 1%

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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district detail, 2016–2020 — the newest published
2020$13,008 per pupil
2019$12,177 per pupil
2018$11,758 per pupil
2017$10,061 per pupil
2016$9,604 per pupil

Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →

The neighborhood · ACS 2024

Three in four of students here qualify for free or reduced lunch, versus three in five statewide.

Context — never part of the Scope Score

Worth knowing

At 77 students, this school is much smaller than the typical California middle school (≈860).

On the state's science test (CAST), 10% 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.

Hispanic or Latino52.0% · district 51.5% · CA 56.1%
White40.3% · district 41.3% · CA 19.9%
Other7.8% · district 4.3% · CA 9.0%
Free or reduced lunch76.6% · CA 64%
Median income$92K · CA $85K
Median home value$511K · CA $659K
Bachelor's degree+27% · CA 35%
ZIP population55,366
Median age37 years

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level

Culture & philosophy

What is the school’s approach?

School-stated approach · questions for your visit

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Compare schools serving the same grade stage. Private schools have no comparable state-test score.

2025 · middle schools · combined reading and math measures. Percentiles compare schools within their enrollment group.

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Ask what changed in the last two years, and what the school is asking families for. Growth shows up in these numbers a year or two after it shows up in classrooms.

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is Green Valley Independent Study a good middle school?
Green Valley Independent Study has a Scope Score of 19 out of 100, placing it in the 10th percentile of California middle schools and ranked #1,964 statewide. 2.6% of students exceeded the state standard on the 2025 CAASPP assessment, which is 14.6 percentage points below the California average of 17.2%. The Scope Score weights 6 dimensions for middle schools: exceeded standard (42%), met or exceeded (proficient) (23%), grade 6-to-8 growth (20%), chronic absenteeism (5%), suspension rate (5%), and ELPAC English Learner proficiency (5%). Data source: California Department of Education CAASPP 2025, analyzed by SchoolScope.
What are Green Valley Independent Study's CAASPP test scores?
On the 2025 CAASPP Smarter Balanced Assessment, 19.0% of students at Green Valley Independent Study met or exceeded the state standard in ELA and Math combined, and 2.6% exceeded it. The gap between those numbers matters: 16.4% of students are at the proficiency floor, while 2.6% went beyond it. Most rating sites report only the combined "proficient" number. SchoolScope surfaces the exceeded-vs-met split because it shows how many students go beyond the standard rather than only meeting it. 118 student-subject combinations were assessed.
How does Green Valley Independent Study rank in California?
Green Valley Independent Study ranks #1,964 among California middle schools by Scope Score, placing it in the 10th percentile. This ranking is based on a weighted composite of 2025 CAASPP test performance (exceeded and met rates), grade-level growth (Grade 6 to grade 8 growth), chronic absenteeism, and suspension rate. Unlike single-number ratings, the Scope Score shows what drives the ranking so parents can decide what matters most to their family. See full methodology.
What is the attendance and school culture like at Green Valley Independent Study?
28.3% of students at Green Valley Independent Study are chronically absent (missing 10% or more of school days), compared to the California average of 18.1%. The suspension rate is 0.7%, indicating a low-discipline-incident environment. SchoolScope includes these culture metrics in the Scope Score because they reflect day-to-day school experience in ways test scores alone cannot.
How does Green Valley Independent Study compare to other schools in Yucaipa?
Green Valley Independent Study scores 19/100 (10th percentile) among California middle schools. To compare with nearby schools, SchoolScope shows the same metrics side by side: exceeded rate, proficiency, growth trajectory, and school culture indicators. The school serves 77 students. Use the schools in Yucaipa page or the map view to compare all middle schools nearby.
How does Green Valley Independent Study serve low-income and underrepresented students?
At Green Valley Independent Study in Yucaipa, 16.7% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 34.4% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Green Valley Independent Study trails its district average for low-income students by 17.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (12.5% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 48 students tested. SchoolScope shows disaggregated test scores by demographic subgroup so you can see how a school performs for your child's specific group — not just the school-wide average. Subgroup data is context, not part of the Scope Score: we don't penalize schools for who they serve. See our equity approach.

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Behind the evidence

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Public sources, visible methods and the underlying school record. Source years and limitations stay attached to the evidence.

How the Scope Score is calculated

On a narrow screen, scroll the table sideways to see the state comparison and weights.

What the score weighs · CAASPP 2024–25

The 5 things our score weighs

What the score weighs
What we weighHereStateWeight
Exceeded standard2.6%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded19.0%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism28.3%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.7%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+11.2pp+1.5pp

Source CAASPP 2025 · California Department of Education. Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How the score is built

A closer look at the evidence

Green Valley Independent Study: reading the evidence

Green Valley Independent Study posts low test scores — and grade 8 tests above grade 6 here this year, by 11.2pp. If this is your zoned school, the numbers below are where to start a conversation, not where to end one.

Subject proficiency describes tested students, while graduation describes a graduating cohort. These figures are not successive stages followed by the same students.

This label means the data doesn't clearly sort the school one way or the other — ask what the school is proud of, and what it's working on.

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Every number: score factors, grades, student groups and downloads
Every number · For the data nerds

Every number on this page

Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.

Green Valley Independent Study is ranked #1,964 statewide · #5 of 5 in Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified.

01Score factorsWeighted composite · 2024–25
Score factors
FactorSchoolStateWeight
Exceeded standard2.6%17.2%42%
Met or exceeded19.0%40.0%23%
Chronic absenteeism28.3%18.1%5%
Suspension rate0.7%3.6%5%
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)+11.2pp+1.5ppnot scored
Exceeded standard
↓ vs CA 17.2% · index 35 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Met or exceeded
↓ vs CA 40.0% · index 34 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint
Chronic absenteeism
↓ vs CA 18.1% · index 36 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · ▼ 1.8pp lower vs 2024
Suspension rate
↑ vs CA 3.6% · index 62 · 50 = CA middle-school midpoint · → no change vs 2024
Grade gap (G6→G8, different students)
↑ vs CA +1.5pp
02By grade & subgroupCAASPP 2024–25 · % of tested students
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ELATestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 37
Grade 47
Grade 55
Grade 6170%12%24%65%12%−34
Grade 7180%28%33%39%28%−20
Grade 8240%25%38%38%25%−21
MathTestedEXCMETNEARNOTMET++/CA
Grade 37
Grade 47
Grade 55
Grade 6176%6%24%65%12%−23
Grade 7186%11%6%78%17%−17
Grade 8244%17%4%75%21%−11

We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, that we hold no valid result for it, or that the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.

Science (CAST)TestedEXCMETNEARNOT
Schoolwide290%10%72%17%

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.

Subgroup · ELATestedMET+vs districtvs CA
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged4816.7%−18−22
03Nearest middle schoolssorted by Scope Score · Grade gap = grade 3 vs grade 5, this year, different students; Cohort growth = one school's returning cohort tracked across grades (mostly, not exactly, the same kids), in scale-score points — that's the measurement the Scope Score weights
SchoolDistScopeEXCMET+Grade gapCohort growthSusp
Green Valley Independent Study ←192.6%19.0%+11.2pp0.7%
California average3917.2%40.0%+1.5pp3.6%
04More measurescontext · not all part of the Scope Score
ShowHide table 04 — More measures
YearScopePctileRankExcMet+AbsentSuspGrade gap
20222534#14008.2%23.4%40.3%0.9%-18.1pp
20232228#15215.5%28.1%48.5%1.0%+20.0pp
20242114#18434.1%15.7%30.1%0.8%-7.4pp
20251910#19642.6%19.0%28.3%0.7%+11.2pp
Grade gap = this year's grade 3 vs grade 5 result, two different sets of students, not a trend for any one child — it is not the measurement the Scope Score's growth dimension uses. See §01 above and /methodology#verdicts for the school's actual scored (cohort) growth.
What we can't show
  • — Scored here as a middle school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
  • — Low-income students here trail the state average for their group by 22 points in ELA — worth asking how the school is closing that gap.
05Climate by student groupchronic absenteeism · 2019 vs 2025 — the two years CDE publishes at subgroup level
ShowHide table 05 — Climate by student group
Group20192025Δ
Female78.3%34.0%-44.3pp
Male67.7%27.9%-39.8pp
Hispanic/Latino76.0%32.2%-43.8pp
White71.4%30.4%-41.0pp
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged89.7%34.4%-55.3pp
All Students74.0%30.7%-43.3pp
Students with Disabilities33.3%
06California growth model, by student group2025 · scale-score points vs the state's prediction · shown, never scored
ShowHide table 06 — California growth model, by student group
GroupReadingnCDE bandMathnCDE band
All Students−940Moderate040Average
English Only−1035not categorised+635not categorised
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged−1132Moderate−332Average
Hispanic or Latino+122Average022Average
White−3014Minimal+814Accelerated

Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.

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EXC = exceeded standard · MET+ = met or exceeded ("proficient") · Source: CA Dept. of Education · CAASPP 2024–25 · n=2,177 middle schools · Vintages: climate subgroups 2019+2025 · district finance per its label · ACS 2022 · Data updated 2026-09-08

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