Hansen Elementary: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
Hansen 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 | 50 | 22% | 46% | +17.5 | 18.4% | 1.0% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Hansen Elementary scores 50 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 67th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “46% proficient” and call it done. Hansen deserves a closer read. The school sits in Anaheim, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Hansen's low-income kids hit 49.3% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Has stayed near the 67th percentile since 2019.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 46% of students meet the standard today, above the 41% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 38% | 36% | 53% | 42% | 37% |
| Grade 4 | 39% | 43% | 41% | 47% | 49% |
| Grade 5 | 53% | 55% | 45% | 35% | 57% |
| Grade 6 | 56% | 49% | 59% | 65% | 59% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 41% | 39% | 54% | 49% | 38% |
| Grade 4 | 41% | 41% | 36% | 50% | 40% |
| Grade 5 | 33% | 37% | 36% | 32% | 53% |
| Grade 6 | 63% | 39% | 51% | 58% | 52% |
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 rises 7.8pp across grades; the floor rises 20.1pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Hansen's most underrated number
49.3% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
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 whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- 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 Hansen Elementary in Anaheim, 49.3% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 46.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Hansen Elementary outperforms its district average for low-income students by 2.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (43.5% Math proficient); Hispanic students (36.7% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 19.5 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 213 students tested.
7 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 14.5pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +10.6pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly one and a half times the rate of Grades 4–6 students (27.8% vs 16.1%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$724 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
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 40% 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 Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 75
Nearby High Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 71
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 3 | 59 | 24% | 14% | 29% | 34% | 37% | −6 |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 22% | 27% | 25% | 25% | 49% | +4 |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 31% | 26% | 17% | 26% | 57% | +10 |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 28% | 31% | 28% | 13% | 59% | +12 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 58 | 14% | 24% | 24% | 38% | 38% | −8 |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 21% | 19% | 30% | 30% | 40% | −1 |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 22% | 31% | 13% | 35% | 53% | +17 |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 39% | 13% | 19% | 29% | 52% | +17 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 55 | 7% | 33% | 45% | 15% |
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 | 213 | 49.3% | +3 | +11 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 158 | 36.7% | −3 | −2 |
| English Learners | 84 | 32.1% | +7 | +22 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hansen Elementary ← | — | 50 | 22.4% | 45.8% | +17.5 | 1.0% |
| Patton Elementary | 1.8 mi | 79 | 56.9% | 80.3% | +11.0 | 0.4% |
| Loyal Barker Elementary | 2.5 mi | 73 | 54.8% | 83.2% | −10.1 | 0.5% |
| Buena Terra Elementary | 2 mi | 73 | 48.6% | 76.9% | +10.5 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 48 | 62 | #2080 | 17.6% | 41.0% | 5.4% | 0.8% | +3.2pp |
| 2022 | 45 | 69 | #1789 | 19.4% | 41.6% | 30.9% | 1.0% | +8.6pp |
| 2023 | 42 | 57 | #2450 | 20.9% | 44.1% | 22.9% | 2.0% | -13.0pp |
| 2024 | 43 | 54 | #2636 | 20.9% | 42.7% | 17.5% | 0.3% | -11.8pp |
| 2025 | 50 | 67 | #1872 | 22.4% | 45.8% | 18.4% | 1.0% | +17.5pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 3.8% | 18.9% | +15.1pp |
| Male | 6.7% | 18.0% | +11.3pp |
| Asian | 1.0% | 3.1% | +2.1pp |
| White | 0.0% | 9.1% | +9.1pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 5.6% | 22.2% | +16.6pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 7.7% | 30.0% | +22.3pp |
| English Learners | 2.4% | 16.3% | +13.9pp |
| Homeless | 10.6% | 23.3% | +12.7pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 6.1% | 19.2% | +13.1pp |
| All Students | 5.3% | 18.4% | +13.1pp |
| Black/African American | — | 11.8% | — |
| Filipino | — | 41.7% | — |
| Two or More Races | — | 23.1% | — |
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