Public school · Tustin Unified · Santa Ana, California

Guin Foss Elementary — Rating & test scores

Santa Ana · TK–5 · 395 students (2024–25)

18492 Vanderlip Avenue, 92705guinfoss.tustin.k12.ca.us ↗(714) 730-7552
76thpercentileStrong

Top: Tustin Unified’s other 17 scored elementary schools. Bottom: California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools by Scope Score, spring 2026 tests. How it’s built →

Scope Score
51

Weighted composite · 2025–26
A weighted mix of six measures.

See this school’s score factors ↓
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100
Needs Support25 in 100Developing25 in 100Solid25 in 100Strong25 in 100

Well above California in English (reading and writing) and math, grades 3–5, spring 2026: 58% and 60% scored Proficient or Advanced, against 46% and 42%.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 171
Comparison
California: CDE’s grade 3, 4 and 5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English and 1,211,701 in math tested).

From spring 2026, the state calls its top two levels “Proficient or Advanced” (formerly “Met or Exceeded”).

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On spring 2025 tests, students in grades 4 and 5 scored below what the state expected in English (−15 pts) and math (−10 pts). The state bases that expectation on each student’s earlier scores.

Sources
The sentence above
CDE growth model, 2025. Students with scores in both years in grades 4 and 5: 136. Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

Common questions

How do I get in?

Ask Tustin Unified which school serves your address. Evidence ↓

Is Guin Foss a good elementary school?

Guin Foss Elementary scores higher than 76 in 100 of California’s 5,726 scored public elementary schools: 76th percentile, Strong, spring 2026. Evidence ↓

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

In 2025–26, 10 in 100 students missed 10% or more of school days, against 10 in 100 at the average Tustin Unified elementary school. 2.0% of students (8 of 397) were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school. Evidence ↓

More questions (4)

Did students here score above what the state expected?

Below what the state expected, in both subjects. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 5 scored −15 points against the state’s expected score in English, which the state calls Moderate. In math, they scored −10 points, which it calls Moderate.

  • Included in this measure: 136 students

Evidence ↓

How do kids like mine do here?

In spring 2026, 48% of low-income students in grades 3–5 at Guin Foss Elementary in Santa Ana scored Proficient or Advanced in English, against 36% for the same group across California. Evidence ↓

Where does it lead?

By the district’s published 2026 attendance boundaries, Guin Foss Elementary is zoned to Columbus Tustin Middle. Boundaries change, are approximate at the edges and don’t guarantee placement, so confirm your address with the district.

  • Columbus Tustin Middle: 65th percentile (Solid) of California’s regular public and charter middle schools, 2026 Scope Score

Evidence ↓

What should I ask on a visit?

The questions drawn from this page are under Next steps, ready to copy. Evidence ↓

Academic achievement

How did students here do on state tests?

Well above California in both subjects.

State tests (CAASPP), spring 2026

In grades 3–5, spring 2026, 58% scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 60% in math, against 46% and 42% across California.

Source
Source
California’s state tests (CAASPP), California Department of Education, spring 2026
Students
all students tested in grades 3–5: 171
Comparison
California: CDE’s grades 3–5 rows for the whole state combined, weighted by students tested (our calculation; 1,208,894 in English, 1,211,701 in math tested). The comparisons use the same grades and year.
AdvancedProficientBelow the standard

English

Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 171 tested

Advanced
37%
Proficient
21%
Below the standard
42%
This school58%
California46%
Tustin Unified61%

58% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.

Math

Grades 3–5 · spring 2026 · 171 tested

Advanced
35%
Proficient
25%
Below the standard
40%
This school60%
California42%
Tustin Unified61%

60% Proficient or Advanced in grades 3–5.

Results for each grade, spring 2026English and math · grades 3–5 · every level, with tested counts

What each level means: California's level descriptions.

English

English, grades 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced58%67%54%
Advanced42%50%25%
Proficient16%17%29%
Developing level19%14%23%
Minimal23%19%23%
Tested524871
California44%46%49%
Difference+14+21+5

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 3–5: share of students tested, spring 2026
MeasureGrade 3Grade 4Grade 5
Proficient or Advanced65%69%51%
Advanced38%50%23%
Proficient27%19%28%
Developing level22%21%25%
Minimal13%10%24%
Tested524871
California47%42%37%
Difference+18+27+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.

New to these scores? Read CAASPP scores explained: how to read your child’s report →

Have results changed?

Results in both subjects were similar to 2025. English stayed at 58% and math went from 57% to 60%.

English · top two levels · grades 3–5

202558%187 tested
→
202658%171 tested

This school

California, same grades46% → 46%2025 → 2026 · 1,232,086 → 1,208,894 tested

Math · top two levels · grades 3–5

202557%188 tested
→
202660%171 tested

This school

California, same grades41% → 42%2025 → 2026 · 1,241,652 → 1,211,701 tested

Each year is a different group of students.

Did students here score above what the state expected?

Below what the state expected, in both subjects. California sets an expected score for each student from that student’s own score the year before. In 2025, students here in grades 4 and 5 scored −15 points against that expected score in English, which the state calls Moderate. In math, they scored −10 points, which it calls Moderate.

Source
Source
CDE growth model, 2025
Students
students with scores in both years in grades 4 and 5: 136
Comparison
Points are scale-score points against the state’s expected score for each student; the category is CDE’s, quoted as published. It describes results, not causes.

Grades 4 and 5 · 2025 · 136 students with scores in both years

Points above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores.

−15 pts

English

The state calls it Moderate, the second of its five growth levels.

−10 pts

Math

The state calls it Moderate, the second of its five growth levels.

Ask: How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?

All four levelsThe state’s test levels Advanced, Proficient, the Developing level (formerly Nearly met) and Minimal, with tested counts
Share of students tested at each level, spring 2026
StudentsAdvancedProficientDeveloping levelMinimalTested
English, grades 3–5 · This school37%21%20%22%171
English, grades 3–5 · California24%22%21%33%1,208,894
English, grades 3–5 · Tustin Unified37%24%17%22%4,146
Math, grades 3–5 · This school35%25%23%17%171
Math, grades 3–5 · California21%21%25%33%1,211,701
Math, grades 3–5 · Tustin Unified39%22%19%20%4,180

Below the standard combines the state’s Developing and Minimal levels, its two lowest. Data source: California Department of Education, spring 2026. The state comparison combines CDE’s rows for the same grades, weighted by students tested (our calculation). The district row combines its public schools in the same grades, weighted by students tested.

English and math results for the tested grades. These do not measure the experience in kindergarten or the early grades.

Each grade’s results: English ↑ · Math ↑

Results since 20178 tested years shown · English and math have been above California in every tested year since 2017

Chart and table: 2017–2026.

English top two levels, grades 3–5
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202658%46%
Math top two levels, grades 3–5
This schoolCalifornia
0%50%100%20172022202660%42%

The lines break across the COVID years, when state testing was waived or optional.

In grades 3–5, the share at the state’s top two levels in English went from 66% in 2017 to 58% in 2026, with 2025 and 2026 about the same. In math, it went from 65% in 2017 to 60% in 2026. Each year is a different group of students.

Each year’s results and tested counts

English · top two levels · grades 3–5
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201766%
221 tested		45%
1,384,680 tested
201871%
201 tested		49%
1,346,907 tested
201967%
205 tested		50%
1,332,547 tested
202252%
181 tested		45%
1,260,830 tested
202352%
194 tested		44%
1,247,801 tested
202453%
203 tested		45%
1,235,509 tested
202558%
187 tested		46%
1,232,086 tested
202658%
171 tested		46%
1,208,894 tested
Math · top two levels · grades 3–5
YearThis schoolCalifornia
201765%
221 tested		40%
1,392,040 tested
201865%
202 tested		42%
1,352,321 tested
201961%
204 tested		44%
1,338,625 tested
202246%
181 tested		38%
1,265,943 tested
202349%
197 tested		40%
1,256,519 tested
202454%
202 tested		41%
1,249,262 tested
202557%
188 tested		41%
1,241,652 tested
202660%
171 tested		42%
1,211,701 tested
How the state’s growth measure worksPoints above or below what the state expected from the same students’ earlier scores

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 15 points below that expected score, and in math 10 points below it. Unlike the growth in our Scope Score, it follows the same students from one year to the next.

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.

Our Scope Score measures growth another way. It compares the latest grade 5 scores here with the school’s grade 3 scores two years earlier (partly different children), then places that change among California schools at the same level. The state’s measure counts only students who took California’s test the year before, so the two can point different ways.

Life at school

How often do students miss school or get suspended?

10 in 100 students were chronically absent in 2025–26.

State attendance and suspension records, 2025–26

That means they missed 10% or more of school days. 2.0% of students were suspended at least once in 2025–26, against 1.6% at the average California elementary school.

Context Close to the 10 in 100 at the average Tustin Unified elementary school: a pattern across the district.

Source
Source
CDE chronic absenteeism and suspension files, 2025–26
Students
chronic absence: 38 of 393 students counted for it; suspension: 8 of 397 students enrolled during the year
Comparison
Each comparison is the rate at the average school (our average of school rates), not a pooled rate. Also: suspensions at the average Tustin Unified elementary school 0.8%.

Chronically absent, 2025–26

10 in 100This school
10 in 100At the average Tustin Unified elementary school
17 in 100At the average California elementary school

38 of 393 students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 10% or more of school days.

Suspensions, 2025–26

2.0%

of students were suspended at least once (8 of 397). Average California elementary school 1.6%.

Ask: When a student is suspended, what happens before and after, and who talks with the family?

Ask families and staff yourselfWhat to ask the people at Guin Foss

Ask current families how the school keeps them informed, and what happened when their child needed help. Ask staff how long teachers tend to stay.

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Every learner

How do kids like mine do here?

Hispanic or Latino and low-income students here scored well above the same groups across California.

Student groups, grades 3–5, spring 2026

Both groups score below California’s rate for all students statewide. 49% of Hispanic or Latino students scored Proficient or Advanced in English and 48% in math (grades 3–5, spring 2026), against 36% and 31% for the same group across California. Low-income students: 48% in English and 47% in math, against 36% and 31% for the same group across California.

Source
Source
California Department of Education, CAASPP research file, spring 2026
Students
grades 3–5; each row gives its tested count. Low-income is CDE’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged”.
Comparison
California: the same group in the same grades, CDE’s rows for the whole state combined and weighted by students tested (our calculation).
Guin FossSame group, CaliforniaAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students
  • Low-incomeEnglish · 103 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 48%Same group, California 36%
  • Low-incomeMath · 103 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 47%Same group, California 31%
  • Hispanic or LatinoEnglish · 110 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 49%Same group, California 36%
  • Hispanic or LatinoMath · 110 testedAhead of the same group across California, where that group scores below California’s rate for all students: 48%Same group, California 31%
  • WhiteEnglish · 36 tested72%Same group, California 60%
  • WhiteMath · 36 tested81%Same group, California 56%

Proficient or Advanced, grades 3–5, spring 2026.

Who are the students?

2025–26 · students counted
1. Hispanic or Latino: 67%2. White: 20%3. Asian: 6%4. Two or more races: 5%Unallocated share: 2%. 100% minus available shares; not a student group.Reported shares2025–26
  1. Hispanic or Latino67%
  2. White20%
  3. Asian6%
  4. Two or more races5%
  5. Black or African American—
  6. Filipino—
  7. American Indian or Alaska Native—
  8. Pacific Islander—
  9. Not reported—
  10. Unallocated share2%
A dash means the share isn’t available; it isn’t zero. The unallocated share is what’s left after the shares we have; it isn’t a student group. Source and comparisons: the full student mix below.

Are English learners moving up on the state’s English test?

82% of English learners here moved up at least one level on the state’s English test (ELPAC), or stayed at the top, spring 2025 to spring 2026.

Spring 2025 to spring 2026 · English learners with state English test (ELPAC) scores in both years

This school · 27 of 33 English learners82%
Tustin Unified · 1,159 of 2,27051%
California · 355,274 of 748,91647%

It counts students moving up the test’s levels, so a student can count here before becoming fluent. Data source: California Department of Education, 2026 Dashboard ↗.

Who are the families and teachers?

62%of students qualified for free or reduced-price meals in 2024–25, 243 of 395. California: 63%.

17teachers, 2024–25

17 yearsaverage experience, 2024–25

0%in their first year, 2024–25

87%of teaching positions with proper credential and placement, 2021–22

Ask: How does the school keep Hispanic or Latino and low-income students on track as they move up through the grades?

All group results, district comparisons and sources
Proficient or Advancedgrades 3–5 · spring 2026
Group and subjectHerevs Tustin Unifiedvs California
Low-income · 103 tested
English48%+444%+1236%
Math47%+443%+1631%
Hispanic or Latino · 110 tested
English49%+742%+1336%
Math48%+840%+1731%
White · 36 tested
English72%+270%+1260%
Math81%+774%+2556%

Each gap is to the same group, grades and subject: in Tustin Unified, and across California. ■ Green: a group that is behind across California does much better here, by 10 points or more and more than twice the margin of error.

Students with disabilities: fewer than 30 tested here. No published rate here for Asian, Black or African American, Filipino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, homeless and military-family students, students of two or more races, English learners 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.

Full student mix, comparisons and sources, 2025–26
Students, 2025–26Here
Hispanic or Latino67%
White20%
Asian6%
Two or more races5%
Black or African American—
Filipino—
American Indian or Alaska Native—
Pacific Islander—
Not reported—

Data source: California Department of Education chronic-absence file, 2025–26. Shares are of the students the file counts for attendance (CDE’s “eligible enrollment”); unavailable categories are shown as a dash.

How the credential rate is counted

CDE SARC report 2024–25, measured 2021–22: 87% of teaching positions, 13 properly credentialed teaching-position FTE out of 15 total position FTE. This measures positions, not individual teachers.

Next steps

What comes after Guin Foss, and how do I get in?

Columbus Tustin Middle, then Foothill High.

Guin Foss’s attendance zone is split: 94% of its children are assigned to Foothill High. Each school’s standing compares it with California schools at its own level.

  1. Elementary · this school
    Guin Foss Elementary
    Grades TK–5
  2. Middle · assigned
    Columbus Tustin Middle
    65th · Solid · 2026
  3. High · part of the zone
    Foothill High
    82nd · Strong · 202594% of the zone’s children

From the district’s 2026 attendance boundaries. Shares are our estimate of where the zone’s children live, from 2020 Census child counts, or land area where few children were counted; they describe children living in the zone, not a school’s enrolled students. A boundary doesn’t guarantee placement: 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

All recorded links and nearby alternatives

Middle-school links

High-school links

  • Foothill High

    Assigned for part of the zone

    82nd percentile · Strong · high · 2025

    94% of the zone’s children

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: Foothill High
Foothill High82nd · Strong · 2025 · Scope Score 69district-published assignment for part of the zone

The road from this school ends at Foothill High. UC records 51 enrollees from Foothill High for fall 2025. The AP Course Audit lists 20 AP courses its teachers are authorized to teach in 2025–26. Those figures come from dated records. A child starting here today would reach Foothill High around 2036, and a school can change a lot in 10 years. By the state’s 2023 count, 86% of the students who finished high school at Foothill High enrolled in college within 12 months, UC or not.

51 UC enrollees (fall 2025) · 20 authorized AP courses (AP Course Audit 2025–26) → full record on Foothill High's page
Source: UC & College Board AP Course Ledger

How do I get in?

Ask Tustin Unified which school serves your address.

School website: guinfoss.tustin.k12.ca.us ↗Office: (714) 730-7552Administrator: Allie Lloyd

Location and visiting

Get directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)
18492 Vanderlip Avenue, Santa Ana 92705

Directory location · Explore nearby schools on the map. Confirm which school serves your address with Tustin Unified.

Questions for your visit

  1. How many K–2 students did screening find at risk last year, and how many got extra reading help?
  2. How do you help children who need more support in reading or math, and those ready for more challenge?
  3. When a student is suspended, what happens before and after, and who talks with the family?
  4. How does the school keep Hispanic or Latino and low-income students on track as they move up through the grades?
  5. What are the school-day hours and after-school care options?

Office (714) 730-755218492 Vanderlip Avenue, directions  (opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Nearby elementary schoolsClosest first, by straight-line distance

The closest elementary schools, by straight-line distance from this campus. Distance isn’t an attendance boundary.

Nearby elementary schoolsPercentile among California elementary schools, 2026

Each percentile compares a school with California schools at its own level.

Explore nearby schools on the map

Source records

Every figure on this page, with its source, grades, year and count.

Score factorssource values, index and weights · 2025–26 · ranked #1,325 of 5,726 California elementary schools we score · #11 of 18 in Tustin Unified
Score factors, 2025–26
FactorSchoolIndexWeight
Advancedaverage of English and math38%6642%
Proficient or Advancedaverage of English and math60%6423%
5th graders in 2026 against 3rd graders in 2024 (partly different children)+67 scale-score pts3520%
Chronically absent10 in 100615%
Suspension rate2.0% (8 of 397)475%
English learners: top level29%685%

Index is where the school's value sits among the California elementary 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. Growth is the change between the school's earlier and later grade-level groups, in scale-score points; it does not follow the same students.

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
2025–265176#1325California elementary schools · 5,726 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 absenceSuspensionGrade gap (points)
2018–198 in 1000.4% (2 of 460)−10
2021–22not on filenot on file+2
2022–23not on filenot on file−27
2023–2413 in 1000.5% (2 of 437)−18
2024–2511 in 1000.5% (2 of 412)−31
2025–2610 in 1002.0% (8 of 397)−9

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

Grade gap: the same year’s grade 3 and grade 5 results, side by side. They are different children, so the gap describes one year, not any child’s progress. The Scope Score’s growth measure is a different comparison, shown in Score factors above (how it’s built).
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 · English17137%58%
2026 · Math17135%60%
2025 · English18732%58%
2025 · Math18834%57%
2024 · English20331%53%
2024 · Math20227%54%
2023 · English19426%52%
2023 · Math19725%49%
2022 · English18124%52%
2022 · Math18127%46%
2019 · English20540%67%
2019 · Math20434%61%
2018 · English20140%71%
2018 · Math20231%65%
2017 · English22141%66%
2017 · Math22135%65%

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 3 · English4873%
2025 · Grade 4 · English7050%
2025 · Grade 5 · English6955%
2025 · Grade 3 · Math4883%
2025 · Grade 4 · Math7057%
2025 · Grade 5 · Math7040%
2024 · Grade 3 · English6958%
2024 · Grade 4 · English6850%
2024 · Grade 5 · English6652%
2024 · Grade 3 · Math6871%
2024 · Grade 4 · Math6850%
2024 · Grade 5 · Math6641%
2023 · Grade 3 · English7264%
2023 · Grade 4 · English6151%
2023 · Grade 5 · English6138%
2023 · Grade 3 · Math7364%
2023 · Grade 4 · Math6244%
2023 · Grade 5 · Math6237%
2022 · Grade 3 · English5754%
2022 · Grade 4 · English6138%
2022 · Grade 5 · English6363%
2022 · Grade 3 · Math5756%
2022 · Grade 4 · Math6131%
2022 · Grade 5 · Math6351%
2019 · Grade 3 · English6571%
2019 · Grade 4 · English6763%
2019 · Grade 5 · English7367%
2019 · Grade 3 · Math6574%
2019 · Grade 4 · Math6653%
2019 · Grade 5 · Math7358%
2018 · Grade 3 · English6367%
2018 · Grade 4 · English7766%
2018 · Grade 5 · English6182%
2018 · Grade 3 · Math6458%
2018 · Grade 4 · Math7765%
2018 · Grade 5 · Math6172%
2017 · Grade 3 · English8566%
2017 · Grade 4 · English6667%
2017 · Grade 5 · English7066%
2017 · Grade 3 · Math8572%
2017 · Grade 4 · Math6658%
2017 · Grade 5 · Math7063%

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
Schoolwide7115%17%59%8%

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-income10348%+4+12
Hispanic or Latino11049%+7+13
White3672%+2+12
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−15136Moderate−10136Moderate
English-only students−14107not categorized−6107not categorized
Hispanic or Latino−1490Moderate−1490Moderate
Low-income−1285Moderate−1785Moderate
White−1323Moderate−223Average
English learners−1920Moderate−1520Moderate
Students with disabilities−2913Minimal−513Average
English learners only−1911not categorized−1011not categorized

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. 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 4 and 5. SchoolScope does not use these CDE figures in its Scope Score.

Growth recordsthe state’s student-by-student measure, and grade 5 against the same school’s grade 3 two years earlier, partly different children · two different measures

Grade 5 in 2026 against grade 3 in 2024 · English

English · 2024 · Grade 3
42%
exceeded standard · 58% met or exceeded
CDE CAASPP 2024 · 69 English test records with scores
English · 2026 · Grade 5
25%
Advanced · 54% Proficient or Advanced
CDE CAASPP 2026 · 71 English test records with scores

Minimum rounded subject-mean records with scores at the endpoints: 69 (school-grade cohort proxy).

These paired percentages describe English results for grade groups at this school in two years. The groups are not matched students. SchoolScope's scored growth measure uses a different school-level scale-score proxy across English and math; California's matched-student model is a separate measure.

California growth model · points vs expected

State model · English−15 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 5

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

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

All students, grades 4 and 5

136 students

CDE growth category: Moderate

California growth model, English: −15 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Moderate, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary school records.

State model · math−10 pts vs expected

matched students, grades 4 and 5

CDE California growth model · 2025 Dashboard

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

All students, grades 4 and 5

136 students

CDE growth category: Moderate

California growth model, math: −10 scale-score points versus the state's expectation, CDE category Moderate, against SchoolScope's +2-point median for California elementary 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 elementary school records, the median English estimate is +2 and the middle half fall between −5 and +9 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 4 and 5, 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 · 11 in 100 → 2025–26 · 10 in 100 · −1 in 100
Suspension rate2024–25 · 0.5% (2 of 412) → 2025–26 · 2.0% (8 of 397) · +1.5 percentage points
Group2018–192025–26Change
Female7 in 1008 in 100+1 in 100
Male10 in 10012 in 100+2 in 100
Asian4 in 1000 in 100−4 in 100
Hispanic or Latino10 in 10011 in 100+1 in 100
Two or more races16 in 10014 in 100−2 in 100
White5 in 1008 in 100+3 in 100
Students with disabilities14 in 10021 in 100+7 in 100
English learners9 in 10012 in 100+3 in 100
Low-income12 in 10011 in 100−1 in 100
All students8 in 10010 in 100+2 in 100

Two reported school years only; no intervening-year result is implied. 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$12,042 per pupil

NCES F-33 · FY 2020–21 (2021) · fall district membership: 22,761 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$153 per pupil

CDE ESSA · school-attributed per-pupil record · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 395

Central federal expenditures attributed here$908 per pupil

CDE ESSA · central expenditures attributed to this school · FY 2024–25 (2025) · source denominator: 395

District current expense · FY 2024–25$16,539 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 61%Instruction support 10%Student services 11%Administration 7%Buildings & maintenance 9%Other 2%
The arithmetic behind these shares · FY 2024–25
GroupDollarsShare, to two decimalsPrinted
Instruction$206,578,21161.01%61%
Instruction support$34,436,17010.17%10%
Student services$37,291,34811.01%11%
Administration$23,837,5757.04%7%
Buildings & maintenance$31,483,3889.30%9%
Other$4,962,9301.47%2%
Total$338,589,622100.00%100%

These shares are our arithmetic: each group’s dollars divided by the $338,589,622 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$12,042 per pupil
2020$11,529 per pupil
2019$11,031 per pupil
2018$10,848 per pupil
2017$10,328 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 92705 · not the school’s students
American Community Survey 5-year estimates · 2020–2024 · ZIP 92705 area
MeasureEstimate
Median household income$129,331
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)47%
ZIP-area population48,781
Median age39.6 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 92705 →

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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 5,726 elementary 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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